All the feels for Nickelodeon's Big Heart World

In late 2020 we wrote a song for Big Heart World, a social emotional learning program developed to help preschoolers process the events that happened during the year. Our song was on the topic of sadness and included some practical steps to name the emotion and work through it.

Listen to the Big Heart Beats album on Spotify.

“The Sad Song”

Michael Levine, Noggin’s senior vice president of learning and impact, calls it the happiest sad song he’s ever heard. What’s up with the upbeat dance rhythms? Ryan & Courtney Lofty, the act responsible for “The Sad Song,” explain that it is less about experiencing sadness than understanding sadness. The discovery that you share this emotion with others can be cause for celebration…

Read our interview with Mark Swartz from Early Learning Nation.