Schools are our only hope for creating a more advanced civilization.
To accomplish this goal forty eight interpersonal communication skills are provided with printed products and an APP for Android and Apple phones and pads. Parent participation in CommunicateForever courses after school, early evenings, or on weekends can dramatically improve student use of the communication skills. Project based learning with role-playing student and parent created dialogs is encouraged.
The skills on anger, fear, envy, grief, and love are the most important skills in the course. Students are taught to do the following:
- Express normal anger to help avoid dangerous rage.
- Express normal fear to help avoid devastating panic.
- Express normal grief to help avoid damaging depression.
- Express normal envy to help avoid vicious jealousy.
- Give and receive love to help avoid destructive possessiveness.
Rage, panic, depression, jealousy, and possessiveness can destroy relationships, create divorce,destroy companies, and even lead to murder and war. The use of the skills provide the solution to dramatically reduce bullying. The skills help accomplish the honest expression of feelings, needs, desires, requests, and boundaries. The skills lead to social emotional learning and emotional intelligence.
Well meaning parents often unintentionally and unknowingly teach their children to hold in these basic feelings. This leads to a difficult life for their children. Too many parents cannot easily teach or model the expression of these feelings listed above and the use of the skills. It’s not easy for parents to teach what they don’t know or practice.
Most educators seek to impart knowledge, thinking that is their main objective. But CommunicateForever asks educators to go beyond the important task of importing knowledge, information, and facts, and actually help students analyze and think about how their interpersonal communication skills can be improved.
Every educator and every classroom can encourage the use of effective communication skills.
Parent participation: Inviting parents and students to attend role-playing classes in the afternoon, early evening, or on weekends can dramatically help create more healthy families, reduce divorce, and reduce violence in our schools and societies. Students can learn to use the skills much more effectively with parent collaboration and encouragement.