How Parents Can Teach Emotional Intelligence to Kids
Self-regulation is a skill that all of us humans need to navigate and learn. When it comes to our typical lessons in Second Step, our social emotional learning curriculum, students learn emotional regulation, empathy and problem solving to name a few. Here are a few tips of things you can do at home to enhance your child's emotional intelligence.
* Help them to develop emotional language to identify all emotions. The more articulate they can be about the emotions they are feeling, the better they are able to learn to manage those emotions.
* Reframe negative emotions. Make space for children to talk through their emotions and feel heard. The outcome of possible consequences may not change, but the relationship comes first.
* Teach the difference between emotions and behavior, allow children to come up with solutions. There is power in knowing how to manage emotions and come up with solutions. This is not of course a quick process and will take patience and persistence, but in the end will empower our kids to think through what they need and the power of self-care.
* Model healthy coping skills. Discuss as a family, coping skills and daily self-care. Balance is key. With young children do those coping skills alongside them.
* Accept mistakes and raise your child to know that there will be challenges that come along in life. We can’t protect them from challenges that may come along as much as we may try. Children have reactive behavior, we all lose our patience sometimes. Parenting is never a perfect process, it can be arduous and exhilarating. Self care is key.
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Location: 1637 Grant Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368, USA
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