Does your school provide opportunities for talk about self

We know well by now that troubles off the chest can become less troublesome. We know well that grievances let out through undangerous channels can offset much dangerous grief. We know that anger and hostility granted similar venting can lessen and make way for more positive feelings. We know that talking about how one feels may help feelings become less disturbing so that they can flow more freely toward constructive goals.

When inner compelling concerns come out into the open and are met with acceptance and understanding, they can lose some of their power to constrict and hold back maturing and emotional growth.

And so you might check:

Does your school do these things? Are personal feelings allowed to enter? Are they accepted? Do they become part of what is dealt with consciously in the classroom? Part of the teacher's focus?

In the last analysis PERSONAL FEELINGS lie at the core and center of "emotional education." Unless these are considered in more than haphazard fashion we do not help our young people to do what is far more important than amassing information. We do not teach them to handle themselves.