Deseret News – Lois M. Collins
“Kids in schools teaching emotional intelligence score 11 percent higher on academic achievement tests…Experts say emotional intelligence includes self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making…As early as kindergarten, children should be able to exercise some control…That control demonstrates stages critical to emotional learning: recognizing one’s emotions, labeling them yourself, then choosing how to interact about them…Inadvertently, well-meaning parents thwart the emotional intelligence of children by trying to protect them from normal emotional upheavals in their lives…But that stunts children socially and emotionally so they struggle with compassion, responsibility and teamwork…While early years are important for developing emotional intelligence, parents can at any age promote social and emotional learning…”(more)