Mistakes Happen…in school, life and football.

Making sense of the death threats aimed at professional football players who made mistakes.

While professional football players are receiving death threats for the mistakes made in recent championship games, imagine the message this sends to today’s children trying to navigate academic and social challenges. With all of the anti-bullying messages being touted in classrooms, here is another example of adults thinking it is okay to bully, via social media, a complete and total stranger. How do we make this into a teachable moment for our children?

I will try my best. Even when I make mistakes I learn from them. The most important thing is to keep trying.

So say the children in schools working with the non-profit Lesson One.

I will use self-control. Self-control helps me not do things that may be harmful to myself and others and makes me feel happy inside.

Lesson One works with adults and children in teaching resiliency and self-control as a way to promote a culture change in schools, homes and communities. Schools implementing Lesson One have seen dramatic increases in test scores and decreases in suspensions.

Jon Oliver, author of “Lesson One: The ABCs of Life” and founder of Lesson One says, “we need to teach self-control in the same way we teach reading and math…through activities, discussion and practice.” Oliver provides practical, easy-to-grasp, inexpensive methods for helping people of all ages become responsible and resilient.

Oliver is currently available for lively demonstrations, interviews and in-studio appearances on how to teach resiliency and self-control.

Lesson One works with children, teachers, staff, parents and guardians, to create an environment where children learn to integrate skills from self-control to cooperation into their lives. With this breakthrough approach, we can change the course of our culture and help children and adults live happy, healthy and productive lives.

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