Resilience is a Key Marker of Emotional Intelligence in Children

Resilience is a Key Marker of Emotional Intelligence in Children

Building children’s emotional intelligence is critical in this ever-changing time in our lives.  Importantly, children learning to manage their emotions and feel confident in their choices increases their ability to be resilient.  Resilience is the key to...
Overwhelmed By Changes? Use Your Emotional Intelligence

Overwhelmed By Changes? Use Your Emotional Intelligence

Let’s look at how to manage your emotions using emotional intelligence. Change alters our center and overwhelms our emotions. We feel out of sync and find that our patience is limited. One minute we are in charge and the next we feel a rush of anxiety and...
Independence and Freedom: An Outcome of Emotional Intelligence

Independence and Freedom: An Outcome of Emotional Intelligence

Independence and Freedom are considered synonymous words, yet by their inherent meanings,  they cast a wide difference of interpretation within each of us.  We declared our independence from England in 1776 and became a country free to establish its own government. ...
Delayed Gratification the Emotional Intelligence Attribute That Saves Lives

Delayed Gratification the Emotional Intelligence Attribute That Saves Lives

Did you know that delayed gratification is an emotional intelligence attribute?  It has many facets that affect our lives daily. It often demonstrates putting someone else’s needs before one’s own. We may need to manage our own needs in order to take care...
Understanding Children’s Emotions and Emotional Intelligence

Understanding Children’s Emotions and Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand your emotions and manage them.  Emotional intelligence are skills taught and are not innate. Young Children’s emotions  raw and undeveloped. Adults parenting or teaching children must understand that emotions...
The Lack of Emotional Intelligence in Politics

The Lack of Emotional Intelligence in Politics

Let’s examine the lack of emotional intelligence in politics. Politics at every level are increasingly mean and lacking emotional intelligence.  All the issues that a democracy creates certainly do not need the addition of a language that demeans one’s...