Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize what we feel, how it affects what happens within us and the effects it will have on our conduct; in essence, it is to be aware of our emotional self, which allows us to better relate to the people around us.
In recent years, there has been more interest in it, due to the high rates of stress and lack of coexistence among adults, and although nothing is lost for us, they are our children for whom it is easier to do since they are a knowledge absorbing sponge.
If you want your children to be assertive people in emotional intelligence, you can help them from home with simple games that will help them develop their emotional intelligence.
FACES-EMOTIONS
Either through the classic game of faces and gestures or with cards that have drawings of faces (there are some for sale), your little ones will have to guess what feeling reminds them. Ask him about the features he detects on that face, and then he goes to the emotional plane: what does he feel? What is wrong with him? And how would you come up with a solution? If possible, tell him to exemplify this feeling in his daily life and to tell you what he did to solve it, so that, in addition, you will learn a little about your children’s concerns.
SEPARATE EMOTIONS
Use a couple of small containers for your children to draw pictures or write on paper situations that make them happy and others that do not, so they will put the good ones in one container and the bad ones in another. Then, as a family, they can take them out and talk about what is happening to them and give options to stop feeling bad or promote those that motivate them.
DOMINO
Use the classic dominoes and place an emotion on the tiles and on the other the situation that generates it, you can find examples on the web. In addition to playing and relating emotions to situations, it can generate debate among the family about the reasons.
MUSIC-PAINTING
It is proven that music is capable of provoking emotions, so do not hesitate to provide your children with a large sheet of paper, put different types of music on them and see what they draw with each of them.
Spend a few minutes every day on your children’s emotions, join the dynamics and also work on your emotional health.