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  • Messages to Take Back to School and Beyond
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    Messages to Take Back to School and Beyond
    New beginnings are exciting! They become exciting to us because they offer the promise of hope, the anticipation of change in our lives, and the prospect that our dreams will indeed come true! Squire Rushnell, When God Winks on New Beginnings  Read more
  • Summer Skill Building with Your Child
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    Summer Skill Building with Your Child
    With summer on the horizon, it is a great time for parents, guardians, and caregivers to think about the social-emotional skills that they would like to foster in their child. To begin your thinking, here are a few ideas, skills, and strategies that we use in Westtown’s Lower School. Unstructured, Read more
  • Empower Your Child, Empower Yourself
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    Empower Your Child, Empower Yourself
    As parents, we are hardwired to want the best life experiences for our children. We know that life will present challenges and it is our role to help them thoughtfully respond to and even learn to embrace these situations. Social Emotional Learning (SEL), also known as Emotional Intelligence (EI), is Read more
  • Back to School Post-Pandemic: Tips to Prepare Your Child
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    Back to School Post-Pandemic: Tips to Prepare Your Child
    As we look toward fall and what we all hope will be a “more normal” start of school, there is a sense of excitement as well as a sense of concern. Many children have been home for a full year or more and on top of the normal start-of-school jitters Read more
  • I Am Because We Are
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    I Am Because We Are
    Living on the six hundred acres that comprises Westtown School’s  campus is an absolute gift. I have the privilege of walking through myriad paths and trails on the campus each and every day. It is during these walks that I do my deepest thinking, ponderings, and wonderings about most any Read more
  • Say Yes to Change with Radical Acceptance
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    Say Yes to Change with Radical Acceptance
    In March of 2000, I was in Washington, D.C. and overheard a colleague speaking about a Buddhist psychologist named Tara Brach who would be speaking that evening at an after-dinner event. Instantly hooked by the Buddhist-psychologist combo, I decided to attend. Within minutes, I was mesmerized by this small, soft-spoken, Read more
  • The Power of Perception
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    The Power of Perception
    We humans are meaning-making machines and it is ultimately our perception (or what our mind chooses to see) that informs the story we tell ourselves and others about what is happening and what it means. As a graduate student of psychology, perception was an area of study that I did Read more