EQ Skills for Parents

EQ Skills for Parents: Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

This program is designed to help parents increase emotional literacy and communication with children. This 10-week course helps parents learn how to recognize and manage their own emotions and increase their EQ. We will use lessons from the Co-Custody Parenting Lesson book. We will also guide you on how to instruct your child on to make sound decisions in social challenges. This program is not another parenting fad. It focuses on working on your own emotions and preparing our children for their future. It involves taking responsibility for helping children develop a strong, positive self-concept. You will learn how to develop a household where thoughtfulness and respect for others is the norm.

Parents will learn the following EQ Tips to help their children:

· Make and keep friends

· Work effectively in a team

· Increase their problem-solving

· Respond with assertiveness

· Deal with a bully or peer pressure

· Coping with a special need or disability

· Increase Motivation

· Build their self-confidence

· Show patience and master tasks.

Activities and Topics include:

Personal Adversity -- Understanding how to reframe adversity.
Five Secrets of Optimism -- Key thinking habits for optimism
Understanding and teaching the Nine Fundamentals of EQ. (See below)
New ways of communicating to have discipline without emotional damage.
Teaching better self-control and resistance to impulses and temptations.
Adversity Role Plays

Nine EQ Fundamentals will be convered:

uBuild emotional literacy
Recognize Patterns
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Apply Consequential Thinking
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Evaluate and Re-choose
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Navigate Emotions
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Engage intrinsic Motivation
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Choose Optimism
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Create Empathy
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Commit to Noble Goals
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