Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of cognitive-physical activity programs for students K-6. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
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Why Does My 2-Year-Old Have So Many Tantrums When She Can’t Get What She Wants?
Real Parent Q: Why does my 2-year-old have so many tantrums and how can I help? Tantrums arise for a handful of reasons, anxiety, sensory overstimulation, hunger, fatigue and more. In this video, we specifically [...]
Creating Your Family Mission Statement: Why It Matters (and how to do it)
Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with the amazing parents and teachers in the Big Life Journal - Raising Kids with a Growth Mindset Facebook group. Their dedication to raising their children in a [...]
10 Activities To Improve Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom – Video
10 Activities To Improve Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom Children with healthy social-emotional skills learn, behave and achieve better. Research shows teacher retention, job satisfaction, and student behavior are better when students are [...]
Physical Activity Improves Executive Function Skills & Learning
Research on the relationship between physical activity and children's health, cognition, learning and academic achievement has increased in the past ten years. Yet many questions remain unanswered. We need to know more about what kinds [...]
The NEW Preliteracy Defined
This past three months, I have had the pleasure of meeting with AMAZING educators in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia. We have been exploring strategies and tools to improve executive function skills, [...]
9 Ways To Tell Your Children Their Feelings Matter
The social-emotional development of our nation's children is foremost in our minds. We have all hugged our children and expressed gratitude for their health and well-being. We pray for those families who now are hurting [...]
Introducing…The Kinetic Classroom!
Dr. Lynne Kenney integrates neuroscience + kinesiology + education to improve children’s learning with cognitive and physical activities designed to enhance children’s attention, memory, self-regulation, learning, and behavior.
Bringing Cognition + Movement to Classrooms and Communities Worldwide.
