How to Help You Kid Learn Emotional Intelligence

Many people wonder about the importance of teaching kids about emotional intelligence. Now, this is the fact that emotional intelligence is learnt by every grown up person at any part of his/her life. So, why care for all this fuss about teaching kids the emotional intelligence? Well, the real answer is you wouldn’t want your kid to lack in the ability to manage his/her emotions after entering into adult age. That gap may get covered at some point but the way it will be covered may not be the pleasant one. So, teaching children about emotional intelligence in the younger age can make them quite strong emotionally when they grow up.

So, there are a few things that you can do right from the start and help your kid ride on car of emotional intelligence in the ideal way.

Respond to your infant as quickly as you can

Many people think that it’s okay to delay the response when baby cries. This is the very wrong thing to do. Emotional intelligence needs to be taught from the infancy. So, when the baby cries, you need to respond quickly and hold your baby to quickly figure out the baby’s need. The baby will show signs of learning emotional intelligence by getting accustomed and comfortable with your parenting.

Manage your own anxiety

About a hundred years ago, the idea that infants get anxiety transferred into them by their parents was introduced by a psychologist, Harry Stack Sullivan. The recent research confirms this concept. Child’s emotions are pretty much related to the way you touch and hold your kid. So, if you in happy mood, your baby is going to imitate you.

Teaching them self-soothing

You may wonder about it but babies can actually be taught self-soothing. It’s all about staying closer to them, holding them and showing love and empathy. This way, the babies start to learn about the bad emotions being the feelings which can be controlled. This practice has long-term benefits as those babies develop the ability to manage emotions as they grow up. Hence, this is the perfect starting point.

Acknowledging children’s emotions

When infants grow up into toddlers and kids, they become more aware about things they want. Hence, they may show inflexibility over certain things. This usually results in tantrums and meltdowns. But you shouldn’t put your guard down by being careless. You still have big job of emotional coaching. Now, the children need to be dealt with empathy. You have to acknowledge their emotions. Being a parent, you have the better idea whether or not to fulfill the child’s desires. So, acknowledging can actually help you to make the children understand your agenda.

Listen

When you listen to your kid by showing that you are all ears, you actually show your acknowledgement about the feelings your child may have at that moment. So, when you do everything to get closer to your kid, refusing to listen or just not paying attention properly to your kid will ruin the entire process.