How to develop emotional intelligence in children

Emotional intelligence concerns a person's abilities to understand their feelings and those of others. It is something really important for the development of our adult life. Therefore, it is important that our children learn the basics of it. We show you how to develop emotional intelligence in children .

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The emotional intelligence of our children can be stimulated through some exercises that we must perform with them.

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It must be clear at all times that your feelings are important. To do this, we must let them express themselves openly, but also ask them. Thus, they can name these feelings themselves, identifying if they are sad, happy or angry.

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Evidently there are many feelings that they themselves will not be able to recognize. For this reason, it is important that we talk to them about emotions, teaching them about fear, anger, sadness, joy or excitement in the face of new challenges.

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In order for these exercises to be fruitful, parents will be responsible for creating a family environment based on understanding and dialogue.

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Also, we have to try to help our children with the most unpleasant feelings and emotions. To do this, let's give them tools to deal with them. If we see that they are very nervous we should encourage them to take a deep breath and count to three.

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In emotional intelligence, empathy is essential. Therefore we must try that our children can also understand the moods of others. We do not deny that we are sad, they must know how to recognize that in others.

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A good exercise is to play to recognize the emotions in the characters of their favorite stories as well as in their cartoon series.

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Another example of emotional education could be taking some cards and drawing children with some sign of these emotions. This will be useful for them to identify them.

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Finally, let's try to help them express themselves, so let's not forget that they are children and that they surely will not know very well how to handle all those new sensations that arise on a daily basis.