Would you like to learn how to:
- be better at talking with your child?
- be better at understanding your child?
- help your child learn to manage their emotions?
- help to prevent behaviour problems in your child?
- teach your child to deal with conflict?
Tuning in to Kids® shows you how to help your child develop emotional intelligence.
The program was originally developed by Professor Sophie Havighurst and Ann Harley in 1999 based on the work of John Gottman and colleagues. Those caring for children develop skills in understanding and managing their own emotions and how to respond supportively to children’s emotions. This strengthens connections and improves children’s emotional competence and behaviour.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence is about using your emotions to guide you through the world. It is about being able to use your knowledge of emotions to make decisions, to calm yourself down, to manage anger and conflict, to help you in your relationships with people, to understand what is happening in social situations, and to assist you in any aspects of life that involves you and another person.
Why is Emotional Intelligence important?
Children with greater emotional intelligence have been shown to:
- have greater success with making friendships and be more able to manage conflict with peers
- have better concentration, which means they are more likely to be successful academically
- be more able to self soothe when upset or angry
- tend to have fewer childhood illnesses
- have more stable and satisfying relationships as adults; and
- have greater career success … emotional intelligence may be a better predictor of academic and career success than IQ!
When parents focus on helping their child learn about emotions, the child is more likely to have higher emotional intelligence.
In this parenting program we will teach parents what to do to help these skills develop. Interested in learning more? Check out www.tuningintokids.org.au or for more information and support, I have completed my Tuning in to Kids® facilitator training and would love to talk further about the program.
