The Emotionally Intelligent Child

Real tools for parenting with patience, and helping your child develop emotional intelligencean essential character trait for succeeding in our highly social worldIf youre like many parents, you may wonder whats going on inside your childs mind when they throw a temper tantrum, refuse to cooperate or become overly excited. Written by two experts in child development and education, The Emotionally Intelligent Child offers a groundbreaking approach for understanding your childs behavior in the context of their development, as well as tips for parenting with compassion, and strategies for helping your child build emotional intelligencea key element of success in todays world.In the book, youll learn all about the stages of development your child goes through as they gain social awareness and emotional balanceand how you can nurture this development using the authors innovative MIND framework.By shifting your thinking from an adult viewpoint to a childs, youll discover how you can scaffold and support your childs social and emotional learning; and ensure the development of prosocial behavior, impulse control, and perspective taking. This shift in viewpoint will also help you gain more patience as a parent, respond with less reactivity, andmost importantlycultivate more joy together as a family.