LaBrae Provides Social-Emotional Support for Parents

In late February, LaBrae was able to welcome Keeth Matheny, or Coach Rudy as he is affectionately known, to provide social-emotional support to parents

LaBrae provided parents an opportunity to bring their children, eat together as a family, and engage children in activities led by LaBrae students as parents learned from Coach Rudy.

Matheny's ultimate goal was to help develop the emotional skills of children, skills such as expressing empathy, managing unhealthy emotions, and inducing positive emotions, which are critical for dealing with life. He asserts that If kids grow up lacking these emotional skills, increasingly negative and unproductive even destructive behavior in our schools and communities is more likely. Thus, helping parents is directly correlated to enhancing these student skills

Matheny presented information to parents to help them better understand brain development and implementation strategies to help students from becoming emotionally hijacked It is a mission to help students better handle their thought processes, their emotions, and improve the choices stemming from their emotions, hopefully, resulting in more positive outcomes at home and at school.

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