How to Strengthen Your Child's Emotional Intelligence

This article by Dr Meghan Owenz, a psychologist from the blog Parent Co, helps parents understand "emotional self-regulation" for your children.
"When emotions run high, people do and say things they normally would not. When you’re a young child, this is what you do all the time.

Emotional self-regulation, a large component of emotional intelligence, is the ability to manage one’s experience and expression of emotions. With practice, children improve their capacity for emotional self-regulation. By age four, most children start to use strategies to eliminate disturbing external stimuli. In other words, they cover their eyes when they’re scared and plug their ears when they hear a loud noise.

It’s not until age 10 that children consistently use more complex strategies for emotional self-regulation. These strategies can be broken down into two simplistic categories: ..."  Click here to read the rest of the article at Parent.Co.