Walden Wise

Childhood has become hurried, externally focused, and preoccupied with perfection, competition, and achievement. The most well-meaning adults struggle to understand what they can do to truly improve kids’ lives. Parents, teachers, and other child-serving adults want to know what will make a difference, yet have little access to cutting-edge research and when they do it is not prepared for them. Researchers want their findings to impact those who are the focus of their work, yet operate in systems that do not promote or reward the broad sharing of their findings. Privileged information is staying behind walls while those who could put it to use have no access. Parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, mentors, researchers, and advocates are all struggling to support the emotional health of children in a multitude of ways in an increasingly complicated, and ever-changing world. We can see how caring adults feel this is just not fair and may want to throw their hands up in frustration. At Walden Wise, we believe kids deserve to live in a world where adults are empowered to attend to their emotional health.