Building Emotional Intelligence In Children

What you'll learn
Basics of Child Psychology and how it Applies to Parenting and Teaching Children
How to respond effectively to children who are upset or acting out or misbehaving
Feel equipped and ready to support children through difficult situations
Teach children how to develop healthy relationships with others and have good self-esteem
Teach children to be resilient and able to handle hard things and feelings
Help parents and teachers to build closer and more meaningful bonds with their kids
Requirements
No prerequisites are needed for this course. It is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced teachers.
Description
Parents and teachers share a desire to help kids to learn, grow, and achieve their potential. As a parent and child therapist, I also want to protect kids from the hurtful things in life. As a therapist, most of the parents I work with want exactly the same thing. The bad news is we CANNOT stop our kids from struggling and we CANNOT keep them from suffering.The good news is we don't have to. Struggling is part of being a human being instead of focusing on protecting our children from all hardship we need to TEACH them how to OVERCOME the challenges they will face and how to recover from setbacks. We can help them learn how brave and formidable they really are, we can give them tools they can use for the rest of their lives to deal with the struggles they will face. More and more research has been going toward the idea of resilience or how children deal with hard things and the factors that might explain why some children (and adults) can navigate hard things and feelings successfully and why some...

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