Nurture your child's emotional intelligence 5 steps to help your child cope with big emotions and build resilience
Book - 2022
"We teach our children how to tie their shoelaces, how to read, how to ride a bike. We explain the weather and rainbows and why people have jobs. But when it comes to explaining the forceful, baffling, intense and marvellous emotions that we might experience, well, things become vague. Nurturing your child's 'emotional intelligence', so they can understand and process their own emotions, is one of the most important things you can teach your child. But parents are often at a loss as to how best to do this. And your child's big, complex emptions can also be somewhat scary--
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London :
Welbeck Balance
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 227).
- ISBN
- 9781789562620
- Prologue
- Introduction: Emotional Intelligence and Your Growing Child
- Part 1. Understanding Emotions
- 1. Your Child's World of Emotions - and Your Role in It
- 2. Opening Up to Difficult Emotions
- 3. Helping Your Child Understand Emotions
- 4. Good Enough Parenting
- 5. Emotional Repairs
- Part 2. Five Steps to EQ
- 6. Emotional Growth Through the Five Steps
- 7. Step 1: Aim for Simplicity
- 8. Step 2: Encourage Acceptance
- 9. Step 3: Respond with Compassion
- 10. Step 4: Increase Playfulness
- 11. Step 5: 'Contain' and Connect to Difficult Emotions
- Final Words: Developing Emotional Ease and Connection
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Useful Resources
