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 guide our words and our actions. Therefore, they need to be understood and managed. Children’s emotional brains are growing the fastest from birth to six. The time to begin is when children understand and acquire language skills. Children with disabilities may require a symbolized method of learning of these skills.
Social and Emotional Learning
The book, “All I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, published in 1989 established the importance of SEL as part of early childhood development. SEL has become the biggest challenge for early childhood educators, daycare centers, and elementary public school settings. Project ACHIEVE’S Multitiered, Evidence-Based Road to Success conducted a study in 1918. The study found that 50% of the principals interviewed expressed their highest concern to be student’s social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is continuously looking for consultants to help address challenging behavior in early childhood classrooms.  National Statistics show us parenting in the era of continuous technology is interfering with social and emotional development in the family setting.
The Pandemic and Systemic Racism
It has become quite evident that we have a nation lacking the social and emotional skills as required learning in early childhood years. Racism exists especially when different cultures have not provided appropriate social and emotional learning during formative childhood development. We have resisted all the studies and research. The evidence is blatant. Our true pandemic is under-developed emotional brains. Young adults are finding it more difficult to manage their emotions. Fear and outrage have replaced the ability to make Informed decisions. actions are replaced with irrational behaviors. Racism lives and thrives in
Our Children Enduring This Crisis
Children enduring this crisis must acquire the emotional intelligence skills that will sustain their emotional well-being. Emotional intelligence is 80% the reason we are successful. They are experiencing new emotions of fear, anxiety, sadness, and impatience. They deserve to have the skills to be able to address these emotions and allow their developing emotional brains to not become overwhelmed by them. Those emotions are necessary and human. However, they need to be understand, managed and co-exist with the children’s emotions that enhance their emotional well-being and ensure their success.
Let’s Raise a New Generation of Emotional Intelligent Children!
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