Course Description:

This course is designed to equip parents with the knowledge and tools that will aid them in fostering emotional intelligence and resilience in children.  The central theme of this course is for you to develop a better understanding of what emotional intelligence and resilience are and acquire the parenting skills that will help your children understand, manage and cope with their emotions effectively.

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Be able to understand emotional intelligence, its importance, and how it differs from other types of intelligence. 
  • Identify how emotional intelligence manifests itself and develops in children and youth (teenagers). 
  • Acquire an understanding of how children can develop a healthy level of emotional intelligence. 
  • Learn effective ways you can teach children to understand and gain awareness of their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. 
  • Identify the role parents, care takers, and teachers play in fostering emotional intelligence and resilience in children. 
  • Learn specific parenting techniques and skills that promote emotional health and emotional intelligence in children. 
  • Promote a healthy level of social-emotional development in children. 
  • Recognize the ingredients that will help children develop resilience through difficult challenges and experiences. 
  • Gain the tools you need to help children discover their inner strengths and their abilities to regulate and cope with their emotions.  
  • Identify the resources you can utilize to promote a healthy level of emotional intelligence and resilience in your children.