Why Parents Should Build Emotional Intelligence?
A strong family unit will enable both the children and the parents to feel valued, secure and loved. This in turn then will help everyone to be more confident in their own abilities and also in the social arena. Think about how you feel when your own confidence is up. You feel more resilient, more willing to take on challenges, more compassionate, understanding and accepting of others and are generally healthier and happier (due to the lack of stress). Well the same is true for your children except as you probably have experienced they are more energetic in their joy. From a more philosophical sense social skills are at the core of our existence. We need to be able to interact, share and bond with other people in order to grow and function properly. Research has consistently shown that people without significant relationships in their lives are more likely to suffer from mental and physical health issues and die at a younger age. So as parents and mentors to our children one of the most important skills we need to teach our children is how to develop solid relationships with others. And the best way that I have found to do this is by making sure I build emotional intelligence in not just my children but also in myself. Can you easily build emotional intelligence? Yes you can easily build emotional intelligence in fact emotional intelligence is more of a nurture learned intelligence compared to a genetic based intelligence. If you want proof that these social skills can be leaned just take a look at your local bookshop and see how much space the self-development section occupies. If you look even deeper at your local bookstore you see that not only does the self-development have its own section but it also is a sub-section for many other topics. It is generally referred to as ways to improve or develop better communication, relationship or mindset skills. These are skills that are also highly regarded in the business world Want more proof? Well just look at how you have learned to interact differently with people in your own life.
These different ways of responding to different groups of people are social skills that you have already learned and through behaviour modeling are teaching your children now. This process of learning social skills is what is happening around us and to us all the time. For example, whenever you experience something new, such as a new job or take on a new role you will learn what is socially expected of you in this position and develop the social skills necessary to adjust to these new expectations. To read more on the principles of emotional intelligence click on the links below
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