Confidence to try
When a child says “I can’t”, they’re often expressing fear or frustration, not an inability. We want them to swap that phrase for a new question.
“I can’t do it”“What do I need to learn, try or ask for to take the next step?”
Elemental Kids
Elemental Kids
Tools for the small decisions that begin to shape their life.
Bilingual experience
Interactive
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Learning for life
There are important things that aren’t always taught in school.
Your child is learning much more than math or reading: how to relate to others, express what they feel, get back up after a mistake and decide when you’re not by their side.
Those small everyday situations are opportunities to develop confidence, communication, empathy and responsibility.
“How do I say what I feel without hurting anyone?”
“What do I do if something doesn’t work out?”
“How do I say no without being afraid?”
“How do I ask for help?”
We don’t come to tell them who they should be. We create experiences so they can discover their abilities and learn to use them.
An experience that speaks their language
Children learn best when they participate.
Games, stories, movement, creativity and group dynamics. Every activity has a purpose: a game teaches collaboration, a story helps recognize an emotion, a challenge shows that making a mistake isn’t failing.
It isn’t an adult lecture adapted for children.
They participate and have fun. At the same time, they develop abilities for life.
Emotions they can understand
What a child can’t explain, they often communicate through their behavior.
We don’t want them to stop feeling anger, sadness, fear or frustration. We want them to discover they can feel an emotion without being driven by it.
What may be behind it
- Behind a shout, frustration.
- Behind silence, fear.
- Behind an “I don’t want to”, something they still can’t express.
What they learn
- To recognize what they feel.
- To put it into words.
- To pause before reacting.
Through age-appropriate stories and activities, they learn to ask for space or support and to choose a response that doesn’t hurt them or others.
What they work on
Confidence, relationships and a new way of seeing mistakes.
Words that build relationships
Communicating is listening, waiting your turn, respecting a boundary and understanding that someone else may think differently. A conflict doesn’t have to end a friendship.
- Saying “no” respectfully.
- Including others and working as a team.
- Apologizing and repairing a relationship.
Making a mistake doesn’t make them a mistake
A mistake can be information, not a definition of who they are. We celebrate curiosity, effort and cooperation, not only whoever gets there first.
- Not knowing something yet isn’t forever.
- Asking for help isn’t giving up.
- Trying again is also an achievement.
Parents and children: one team
What they learn grows when it can also be practiced at home.
Depending on the format of each edition, families receive guidance on the practices used in the experience. They aren’t techniques to control behavior: they’re a shared language.
Besides asking “Why did you do that?”, we can ask:
“What were you feeling? What did you need? What could your next step be?”
More than tools
New ways of observing produce new possibilities.
A distinction is something that, once you recognize it, changes the way you see a situation. Children live it through experiences; they don’t memorize it.
Feeling angry
isn’t the same as acting from anger.
Making a mistake
doesn’t mean being a failure.
A thought
isn’t always a fact.
Being different
doesn’t mean being less.
Listening
doesn’t mean agreeing.
Reacting and responding
aren’t the same.
For mothers, fathers and caregivers
Your child doesn’t need to be fixed. They need spaces to discover new abilities.
- Elemental Kids doesn’t start from the idea that something is wrong with your child, but from the fact that they’re growing and learning to relate to others.
- It offers them a space to strengthen their confidence, express their emotions and create age-appropriate goals.
- It helps them recognize that their words, actions and choices have power.
A space to be kids
Learning doesn’t have to feel like one more pressure.
We don’t use humiliation, comparisons between participants, public punishment or labels like “the difficult one” or “the shy one”. The team supports each child respecting their age and their moment.
Elemental Kids is a personal-development and life-skills training. It isn’t child therapy and doesn’t diagnose or treat medical, emotional or behavioral conditions.
Before you decide
The questions you’re probably asking yourself
We want you to get to know the experience before enrolling your child. If your question isn’t here, message us.
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