CATCHING FEELINGS: how to raise an emotionally intelligent child

whether you knew it or not, you became your child’s emotion coach the moment they were born. Teaching children how to manage intense emotions is an important – and challenging – parenting responsibility, because children cannot learn these skills on their own. They require practice from early childhood all the way through adolescence and they look to caregivers and other adults as their guides – their coaches.

University of Washington professor John Gottman, coined the term “emotion coaching” when he found that children whose parents help them regulate their emotional worlds were more confident, happy, successful and able to make better choices in future.

The course aims to help parents:

* step into the role of emotion coach

* value their children’s emotions

* know how to respond to a child’s emotions

* connect with their kids and improve their relationship

* resolve conflicts without escalating their own emotions

* coach their children to regulate behaviour and emotion

* set clear, consistent behaviour limits

Course Highlights

* Parenting Styles

* Parenting Behaviours to Avoid

* Steps of Emotion Coaching

* Situations When Emotion Coaching is Not Suitable

* Practical Application and Tools

– CATCHING FEELINGS: how to raise an emotionally intelligent child online short-course –