We need to educate them social and emotional skills that are considered to be a revolution in child psychology.
Dr. Lawrence Shapiro gives practical advice available to teach your children how to:
• To make friends and maintain friendships
· To work in groups
· To speak and listen effectively
· To prove
· To counter the bullies.
· To learn empathy for others.
· To solve problems.
· Do not laugh at yourself.
· To motivate yourself in difficult moments.
· To meet challenges with confidence.
· To experience a pleasant feeling of intimacy.
• use the computer to express their emotional skills.
Filled with games, tests and other techniques, the book is an invaluable guide for parents and educators, also be of interest to students of pedagogy, psychology and medicine.
THINKING OF YOU CHANGE YOUR CHILD
What is perhaps most interesting for your participation in emotional education of children is that you literally change their brain chemistry, or more precisely - they learn to control the functions of the brain. As we know, emotions are not abstract ideas that psychologists help us name - rather too real. They take the form of specific biochemical substances that produce the brain and the body which then react.
Most of us tend to think of emotions as chemical reactions, so you only need to consider what happens when you drink alcohol or more cups of coffee. You may not realize it, but the food you eat also interacts chemically with your emotions. Foods that feel good, such as chocolate and ice cream stimulate brain to release serotonin and endorphins - biochemical substances that the brain associated with a sense of wellbeing. Therefore, when we are depressed, feel a desire for such foods. But there is no need to eat something in order to produce biochemical equivalents of emotions. The most important merit of this book is that you can teach your children to change the biochemistry of emotions, helping them be more adaptable, be able to speak naturally and be happy.
LET THE SMILE BE YOUR SHIELD
Serotonin is just one of the chemicals, called neurotransmitters, which construct our emotional reactions by conveying emotional messages from the brain to different parts of the body. Over the last decade of serotonin special attention because it helps overcome the stress in the form of the drug Prozac helps treat depression, obsessive persecution mania and other psychiatric disorders. Psychiatrist Michael Nordan proves in his book Beyond Prozac, we can train your brain to produce serotonin naturally through such simple means, such as healthy eating, more exercise and enough sleep.
Serotonin is important not only for the emotional life of a child - it affects body temperature, blood pressure, digestion and sleep. It helps children to deal with all types of stress by protecting the brain from hyporesponsiveness. Elevated levels of serotonin are associated with reductions in aggression and impulsivnostga. However, serotonin can be released only with a smile. Robert Zayonk and colleagues point out that when you smile, your facial muscles constrict, reducing blood flow to nearby blood vessels. This cools the blood, which lowers the temperature of the brain, stimulating the production of serotonin. When we tell kids to "just smile" and everything looks great, we absolutely do. Small things can change lives.
TRICKS, skills, habits and Games: recipe for HIGH EC
The new understanding of evolutionary psychology nevroanatomiya and presents many opportunities for parents to help children to develop high EC. We hope that you read these pages you will find useful ideas. Some of the ideas I call tricks - simple ways to effect rapid change in behavior of children. For example, when working with children tend to fight with others, they learn the "turtle technique". Ever worked with seven Sam, who was a report that is condensed on the field. I told him she felt a desire to fight, to imagine that the tortoise which withdraws into its shell, to hold hands to the side of the body, legs together and bend your chin to your chest and slowly count to ten and breathe deeply every day.
This technique is simple and fun for children, but it is a psychological trick. While Sam's hands are folded side, it can neither hit nor kicking. While counting to ten and breathe deeply, it sends messages to the brain to slow the production of biochemical substances associated with aggression (katekolamini), which would increase the excitement and the desire to fight. And leaning his chin to his chest, he breaks eye contact with the alleged enemy. After all, he lost his desire to fight (it is impossible to fight someone you do not see it).
Emotional skills require more time to learn and include some practice but once mastered, they become second nature. For example, the understanding of facial expressions (facial expressions, gestures and postures) is a skill that is easily digested. Since studies show that 90% of emotional communication is without words, this skill can improve a child's ability to understand the feelings of others and respond appropriately.
You'll also find suggestions on how to direct the child to improve attitudes that will enhance emotional intelligence. For example, a child's ability to relax and use your imagination to cope with pain and psychological stress may have a greater positive impact throughout his life. These techniques not only distract the child from physical pain but also stimulate the body to release natural remedies against it.
Many of the tricks, skills and attitudes that will find in this book are presented in the form of games and other fun activities. Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud and while some children's therapist, was one that explained that "the game is the work of children." I took to heart for life that old adage I learned as children of new emotional and social skills through entertaining and challenging games. They are a good way to teach skills with the EC, because children love to play them again and again. Through games give children the opportunity to learn and practice new ways to think, feel and act, and participating in these games, we become an integral part of the emotional learning process.
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