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.

– What parents are saying –

This stuff is so important – you don’t want to mess this up…. it’s your kids!

We were having issues with our 4 year old daughter. I realised when she became angry or frustrated, I checked out! After learning about emotion coaching and changing my reaction to her, she has completely changed, because I changed.

Within one week of applying the advice, my child cries remarkably less. She even came to me to say that she loves me “for helping her help herself to solve her problems.”

It has benefited not only my parenting but my personal and business relationships… Realistically addresses not only my children but me as a parent, without making me feel guilty or stupid. We all have to deal with fun and frustration, cuddling and craziness…it helped me find great perspective on all those aspects of being a part of a family.

 

* The course material is available 24/7
* You can complete it at your own pace and in your own time
* The material includes both reading presentations and video material

– CATCHING FEELINGS how to raise an emotionally intelligent child –

The course was developed by Dr. Joanita Olivier (PhD) – a practicing psychologist with 15 years experience in the field. She is a graduate from the University of Stellenbosch. She has a keen interest in positive psychology and therapy with adults, adolescents and children. Her PhD research focused on developing resilience in families. She is a wife and a mother to two young children. She knows firsthand the challenges that parents face.