Parenting Skills to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

This lecture begins the hands-on teaching strategies for building emotional awareness in children. It begins with helping children to identify a range of feelings.

This lecture covers using facial expressions to help young children learn about feelings and to link emotional experiences to how they may be expressed physically and includes some ways of strengthening children's ability to "read" others' faces and mannerisms.

This lecture demonstrates how books can be utilized in the classroom or home to help children of all ages learn about and expand on their understanding of emotional experiences and build emotional awareness.

This lecture delves into how we expand on the foundation of feelings identification into Stage 2 of emotional development geared toward children who are able to name and identify basic feelings.

Learners will learn how to help children practice radical acceptance of their feelings and adaptive ways of thinking about difficult or unpleasant feelings.

This lecture covers a variety of ways for children to express their feelings all of which are important for learning to handle difficult feelings.

This lecture focuses on using play or "special playtime" as a way of encouraging children to express and process hard feelings.

An example of verbal tracking or reflection used with children.

This lecture looks at regulation and co-regulation and delves into how parents and teachers can provide the right emotional environment in which to help children regulate.

This lecture focuses on concepts and strategies related to helping children down regulate or calm down.

Example of progressive muscle relaxation.

Demonstration of Butterfly Hug technique to help ground or calm down.

This lecture provides instruction for how to make a Feelings Jar and guides the learner through this activity.

Lecture covers helping children to regulate by creating a calm physical and emotional space in the classroom and home.

This lecture focuses on helping children to sit in uncomfortable or painful feelings and to be able to handle those distressing feelings or experiences.

Learners will get the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and how our thoughts impact our feelings and behavior. This lecture provides ways of enhancing positive thinking and problem-solving in children.

This lecture highlights the importance of modeling self-compassion and self-care for the children in our lives.

This lecture looks at the role of connection in our overall resilience and how helping children form and maintain strong connections can help them overcome many difficulties.

Introduction in to what empathy is and why it is important.

This lecture presents some activities and projects that can be used at home or in school to foster empathy.

This lecture looks at how we deal with difference at home and in the classroom.

This lecture focuses on an overview of bullying and aggression among children.