Giving Kids an Emotional Toolkit | POF165

Emotional intelligence is more and more important, especially in parenting, especially in today’s day and age. EI, or EQ, for short, or SEL, social emotional learning, means: the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.It’s critical to teach our kids to develop their EQ…BUT it’s tricky because chances are we were never taught how to manage our own! GOOD NEWS, it’s NEVER too late to grow and develop it. In fact, having kids provides a great opportunity to both learn and teach emotional intelligence. My guest, Nadine Levitt, is an expert in teaching how to understand your child’s emotions and your own. The result is kids who feel safe, heard, supported and trust their parents. When your child feels this way, not only are they able to manage their emotions, you have a better relationship with them and parenting has less friction. In this episode we talk about: emotions, how we break it down for kids so that it is both simple and empowering.How emotions come and we can’t control themHow to look at what our emotions are telling usEmotions come to us in clusters, how can we direct them?As parents, we can either be influenced by our kids' emotions OR we can be an influence so when your child has big feelings, accept that emotions are here and notice (without judgement) what you are saying to yourself about them. Creating strategies - identify, acknowledge and redirect the better I understand my emotionsFor the ultimate emotional toolkit, download it from the Parent Toolbox www.parent-toolbox.comAbout Nadine LevittNadine Levitt is the Founder and CEO of WURRLYedu and the author of the My Mama Says SEL program! She began her career as an international trade lawyer but after 6 years of practice, she decided to pursue her passion for opera and song writing.She has performed extensively all over the world with David Foster, Andrea Boccelli, Kiri Te Kanawa, Christina Perri, and Steven Tyler to name a few. Passionate about education, she sits on the national board of Little Kids Rock, is a member of the NAfME Roundtable, and in 2016 led the development of the music education platform WURRLYedu.In this capacity, she has observed more than 400 classrooms nationally. In 2019 she published a children's book about emotions entitled My Mama Says Inside Me Lives A Village to shift the dialog on emotions, to be simple to understand and empowering. The following year she developed a supporting curriculum for schools that was successfully workshopped in [50+] schools around the country. Connect with her at @mrswurrly.Contact information:Email: [email protected] Number: 310-395-1306Social Media:Website: https://www.mymamasays.com/https://www.wurrlyedu.com/https://www.PDreimagined.com donate a self care kit to a teacher!https://www.pdreimagined.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WURRLYedu https://www.facebook.com/MyMamaSaysBookInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wurrlyedu/ https://www.instagram.com/mymamasaysbook/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinelevitt/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WURRLYedu https://twitter.com/MyMamaSaysBook/Social Media:Website: https://zenparentingradio.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zen-parenting-radio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZenParentingTwitter: https://twitter.com/zenparenting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenparentingradio/ Pinterest:...