Our Story
“MEandMine was built out of a belief to make social-emotional learning accessible to every child and family. We all have different triggers of stress throughout our life and different emotions that can hijack our body’s ability to be able to process the world meaningfully. As parents, the best gift we can give to our little ones is to empower them to have fun with challenges, make friends with uncertainties, and discover the magic hidden inside them.”
- Elinor, Founder of MEandMine
The creation of MEandMine began with Elinor and a powerhouse of parents in Silicon Valley. After a career in neuroscience, Elinor noticed the growing mental health problems in young kids. Elinor started this personal project by chatting with 1000 parents across the U.S. Although with different backgrounds and various parenting skills, all of the parents had one thing in common: the deepest hope for children to develop a resilient core through a fundamental love of self, healthy life choices, and become not just better students, but better people.
The idea behind MEandMine was crystalized after a conversation with the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard. After connecting the dots between resilience and social-emotional learning, Elinor then formed a team of pediatricians, psychologists, educators, and parents to design stories and hands-on experiments that enhance SEL.