Feel Your Best Self: Educators, Puppets Unite to Teach Kids About

Thanks to a pioneering interdisciplinary collaboration at UConn called Feel Your Best Self, elementary-aged children will soon have a chance to learn skills for handling stress and directing their emotions in classrooms and childcare settings across the country — for free.

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