In my research I discovered love by itself wasn't enough channeling that carrying into some basic skills that parents practice. as if they were coaching their children in the area of the emotion was enough. The secret lay in how parents interacted with their children.
Emotionally intelligent children and people are better at shooting upset calming down their hearts faster and because of the superior performance in that part of their physiology that is involved in coming themselves they had fewer illnesses they were better at focused attention. They were better at understanding and had better friendships.
Ocean within this context motion coaching parents only set limits and miss behavior is no longer the major concern compliance obedience and responsibility comes from a sense of love and connectedness the children feel within their families in this way emotional interactions among nation for instilling values and raising moral people. Children behave according to Family standards because they understand with their hearts that is expected and that living right is off of belonging to the clan.The key to successful parenting is not found in complex series elaborate family room convoluted and affection for you demonstrated simply through empathy and understanding good parenting begins in your heart then continued on a moment to moment basis by engaging your children when feelings run high when you're sad angry or scared the heart of parenting is been there in a particular way when it really counts.
In the last decade of scientists have found that even more than IQ your emotional awareness and ability to handle feelings determines your success and happiness in all walks of life including family relationships. Children learn most lessons about emotion from their parents it includes the ability to control impulses delay gratification motivate themselves read other people's social cues and cope with life's ups and downs.
Family life is our first school for emotional learning. Parents to teach their children strategies to deal with life's ups and downs are called emotion coaches they don't object to their children's displays of anger or sadness or fear nor do they ignore them instead they except negative emotion as a fact of life and they use emotional moments as opportunities for teaching their kids important life lessons and building closer relationships with them.
Parents who failed to teach kids emotional intelligence fall under three categories:
1. Dismissing parents who disregard ignore or trivialize children's negative emotions.
2. Disapproving parents who are critical of their children's displays of negative feelings and may reprimand or punish them for emotional expression.
3. Laissez-faire parents who excepts their children's emotions and empathize with them but failed to offer guidance or set limits on their children's behavior.
5 Steps of emotion coaching:
1. Become aware of child's emotion (emotion awareness)
2. Recognize the emotion as opportunity for intimacy and teaching (relationship opportunity)
3. Listen empathetically validating child's feelings (empathetic validation)
4. Help child find words to label emotion (name emotion)
5. Set limits while exploring strategies to solve the problem (strategic limits)
Extra Help for setting limits...
Set Behavior Tolerance Zones:
Green Zone = acceptable behavior that lifts and builds.
Yellow Zone = leeway both for learners (age-appropriate) and for hard times (unusual circumstances and stressors)
Red Zone = unacceptable behavior that can not be tolerated (can be destructive--physically, morally, etc.)
Set Consequences
Children should understand consequences are not bad in and of themselves. Good behavior will get happy consequences/rewards. Poor choices will unhappy consequences. Regardless of whether they are happy or sad, consequences must be three things: Consistent, Fair and Related.
Time-outs
When used correctly, children are briefly isolated from positive interactions. A Time-out can be an effective way to help childre...
1. stop their mis-behavior (stop action)
2. calm down (feel)
3. start again on a more positive note (think how to change: make it right)
Spanking
Short-term: the threat may stop mis-behavior immediately, but without discussion... putting off chances to teach the child self-control and problem-solving
Long-term: spanking may not work at all, but rather make the child feel angry and humiliated more often causing retaliation and denial.
Work Together to Find Solutions
Identify some options. kids under ten may need to focus on trying one at a time until they find one that works)
Try role playing and fantasy play. Little kids are better at acting their part through a character and feeling free to experiment their actions. You can try experimenting with a right and a wrong version to see which seems helpful or correct.
Brainstorming Session. For our children, a regular brainstorming session should work. Remind the child that no idea is too silly, and just throw any ideas out on the table.
Recall the child's past experiences and victories. This will bring confidence and help them visualize trying something new.
Help Your Child Choose a Solution
Feel free to share your past experiences and feelings similar to your child's situation...sharing mistakes and decisions, etc. don't be afraid to let them make a choice you wouldn't. If things don't work out, she can learn and try something new. And you can guide them in analyzing why it didn't work out. Regardless of the outcome, be supportive and help the child develop a plan for the choice made.
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Many well-meaning parents dismiss children's fears and upset as though they didn't matter in these cases the child begins to except the adults estimation of the event and learns to doubt her own judgment. if adults constantly invalidate a child's emotional feelings, the child will begin to lose confidence in himself.
Taking children's emotions seriously requires empathy been listening skills and a willingness to see things from their perspective. It also takes a certain selflessness. (but when a parent is stressed or otherwise distracted a child's incessant and sometimes irrational demands can drive the parent wild).
Many parents are letting go of the strict authoritarian models which they were raised and living with the growing believe in the intrinsic goodness of children more parents now believes their role is to assist children to develop according to their own interests needs and desires.
Parents must show genuine respect for their children's feelings. They should not tell children what they ought to feel, because that simply makes children distrust trust their feelings. Kids' emotions do not disappear when parents say "don't feel that way." And while not all behavior is acceptable, all feelings and wishes are acceptable. therefore, parents should set limits on acts, but not emotions and desires. parent should honestly express their emotions, provided that it is directed at a specific problem and does not attack the child's personality or character.
As helpless as babies are they can learn from our response to their discomfort that emotion has a direction that it is possible to go from feelings of intense stress, anger and fear, to feelings of comfort and recovery. When babies get upset they lack any sense control. And without a guide to take them from distress to comfort they can't self-soothe; instead their negative emotional experience becomes a black hole of anxiety and fear.
The first step parents can take toward raising emotionally intelligent children is to understand their own style of dealing with emotion and how that affects their kids.
Situations when Emotion coaching may not work...
1. When you are pressed for time
2. If you need to deal with a serious mis-behavior
3. If your child is faking an emotion to manipulate you
4. When you are too tired or upset to be productive
5. When you have an audience
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