Teach Your Child To Develop Emotional Intelligence
Educating our children goes beyond teaching them basic aspects of life such as the importance of studying, love, understanding, the value of life, respect among others. Why does it go further? Because we must teach our son to develop his emotional intelligence.
It is necessary that since our children are young we teach them to define their abilities to perceive, assimilate, understand and control their own emotions. In this way we are contributing to the most appropriate emotional and intellectual growth each day.
Parents have the responsibility that they learn to channel their emotions, since, when they are young, they do not understand why they feel strange or behave differently with the people around them.
Scientifically emotional health and emotional education are the fundamental part of the formation of all people, on this factor depends their vision of life and their personality before society.
We know the importance of knowledge, understanding and control of emotions in the lives of our children, since they allow them to adapt, communicate and function in society.
The emotional intelligence of our little one
We must not forget that emotion is a faithful companion to stimulation, the engine of achieving goals. For that reason, it is necessary to start with a plan to teach your child to develop their emotional intelligence and what better way than to achieve it through these tips !:
- Recognize your own emotions. In order to teach it, it is necessary to know your own emotions, as well as learn to identify the emotions that we are all experiencing at home.
- Timely communication. Try to discuss with him: What is the reason for feeling upset? Do you have reasons to cry, get angry, or feel inferior? Communication is transcendental, when we observe an act of tantrum the main thing is to communicate with a lot of patience and love to make them understand that perhaps there are no reasons for negative behavior.
- Understanding and love. If as parents we have the same attitude as the child we will be failing, the idea is not to punish him but to show him understanding and a lot of love, this will be the best tool to help him control his emotions and to think before about the consequences of his actions.
- Rethink. Children must be taught to “reconsider”, that is, to think and analyze their emotions so that they learn on their own to identify how they “feel”, as well as learn to detect the emotions of the people around them.
Teach your child to develop their emotional intelligence
Helping them express their emotions is the only way they can have good communication with parents, teachers, and other family members.
Explaining to them about communicating with other people and the empathy that he must feel for his peers, making friends and showing kindness and respect for everyone will make him an extraordinary child. The best way to teach it is starting from values.
Depending on the age of our child we must guide them, if they are very young, simpler methods of explanation are required for the management of their emotional intelligence, if they have an age in which they already understand many things the explanation can start from the “example”.
Let us remember that they observe everything especially the behavior of mom and dad, therefore it is good to act more and talk less, we are the main source of children’s learning.
In this process, it is necessary to analyze when our children have matured emotionally, in order to determine if the management of their emotions is according to their age. For example, did you throw tantrums in the street and did not do it anymore except because you understood that doing them was not the best way? So we can say that he has indeed matured emotionally.
Now, if, for example, he is 5 years old and still has tantrums in public, at home or at school and sometimes because of things that do not make sense, the child has not yet channeled his emotions and requires more reinforcement and guidance on the subject in question.
In severe cases of emotional intelligence management problems, it is very important that we seek the help of a specialist, so that they guide not only our little one but the family group, in order to achieve successful and short-term results. In this way we will have more harmony in our environment and our son will integrate much better into society.
