Cam & Leo's Emotion School

06/28/2023

It was so much fun to chat with parenting coach extraordinaire Allana Robinson of the Parenting Posse with Allana Robinson about Cam & Leo's!

05/21/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Cam & Leo's Emotion School is now out of pilot testing phase, and is open to the public! Sign up now and treat your family to a robust, fun, life-changing emotional education for life! Just $29.99/month.

03/23/2023

Gr 4 students at Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School play a hopscotch-style game teaching the difference between pseudo aggression (“Fake Force”) and healthy aggression (“Real Force”)!
Want to bring Cam & Leo to a classroom near you? Message us for more info!

02/22/2023

Telling a child to do something because you said so robs them of their autonomy, ironically displacing responsibility for their behaviour onto you (instead of helping them learn how to decide the right course of action for themselves).

02/15/2023

You can train yourself to put emotions (Cam) in their place, and propel your rational self (Leo) to the driver's seat of your brain and behaviour. Or you can let emotions rue the day and suffer the consequences.

02/08/2023

So often, we get triggered by someone else’s heightened emotions. If someone is freaking out, especially when it’s directed at us, we tend to escalate our emotional response, and calibrate our emotions to theirs. But, we can (and should) choose instead to not let others’ emotional states to “infect” ours.

02/01/2023

Let's raise a next generation that knows what emotional strength REALLY looks like.

01/29/2023

Students at Paul Penna enjoy Module 1: Lesson 2 of Cam & Leo's Emotion School: Emotions in our Bodies - and learn what impact emotions have on our physical selves through a fun round of Emotions Bingo! Want to bring intensely fun and effective social-emotional learning to your classroom? Reach out!

Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School

01/26/2023

Managing authority is an important skill. A potentially even more critical skill is having confidence in your perspective. When we teach kids to obey, particularly at the expense of their autonomy, we rob them of the opportunity to build confidence, and the opportunity to do the right thing for the right reasons.

01/20/2023

The emotional landscape is a fickle one - we all experience the ups and downs of emotions, every day. That's human. The key is in not attaching too much to any fleeting feeling and to try to stay flexible by realizing that no matter how intense the emotion is at the time, it will pass.

01/03/2023

Learning core emotional skills is fun with Cam & Leo!

Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School

12/25/2022

Want to know what Cam & Leo's looks like in the classroom? Having fun (while learning core emotional and social skills!) Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School

11/09/2022

When we have a Fixed Mindset, we get stuck. If we can flip into Growth Mindset mode, it's green lights from here on in! Grade 3 & 4 students at Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School play the Fixed/Growth Mindset toss game!

11/06/2022

Grades 3 & 4 students at tune into their first multimedia Cam & Leo lesson! Let the emotional Sharing, Learning, Playing and Talking begin!

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11/02/2022

Grades 3 & 4 students at Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School tune into their first multimedia Cam & Leo lesson! Let the emotional Sharing, Learning, Playing and Talking begin!

10/30/2022

Empathy is a superpower. It has the magical ability to de-escalate the most intense emotional situations faster than anything else. Empathy first. Solutions, talking, fixing, helping, later.

Practicing empathy helps us regulate our emotions, connect with others and feel less isolated, writes Helen Fishburn For the past two years, we have

10/25/2022

Today is a big day for our little company. This is Day #1 of bringing dedicated social-emotional learning to the classroom! There's nothing we love more than seeing kids get equipped with core emotional competencies while having FUN! Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School

10/21/2022

We CAN'T WAIT to introduce Cam & Leo to students at Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School next week! Stay tuned for updates about Cam & Leo's at schools across the GTA and DM if you're interested to bring the most fun, most engaging, and most effective social-emotional learning program to YOUR kids' school!