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Teaching About Emotional Intelligence Is Not a Crime

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Emotional regulation is essential—but in 2025, teaching kids how to understand and manage their feelings is being politicized. While schools face pressure to cut SEL programs, creators like Psych2Go are stepping up to fill the gap with free, accessible mental health content. This post explores how emotional intelligence became controversial, why it still matters, and how educators, parents, and students can keep showing up for it anyway.

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Apparently, Empathy is ‘Woke’ Now

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Empathy is under attack.

Once a basic moral value, it’s now dismissed by some as “woke” or partisan (especially when used to support marginalized groups.) This reframing threatens our ability to connect, understand, and build a more just world.

Here’s how empathy got politicized, why that’s dangerous, and what we can do to reclaim it.

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Can the Cookie Monster Still Teach Kids to Wait?

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Cookie Monster teaches kids how to breathe, wait their turn, and manage big feelings—classic Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). But in 2025, even that’s controversial. Lawmakers are targeting SEL and threatening funding for PBS and NPR, the public media institutions that make this kind of values-based content accessible—especially in rural communities. Here’s what’s happening, why it matters, and how you can help defend empathy, public education, and Cookie Monster.

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