That can only come about if the models around you have that passion for goodness. If you're experiencing love, and you're getting your feelings named, and validated. Goleman and his colleagues have gotten absolute clinical evidence showing how much better families function, and really how much more control children have over emotion, when they are dealt with right while the child's having them. When they're talked about. When parents sit down with their children.
Emotional intelligence is a huge part of overcoming violence.
Yes, I totally agree with that. I was thinking about this, between Columbine and the other events that have happpened recently. It would seem if the families work together more on projects, both at home, and in the community, as children are growing up, then they might learn the joy of cooperating more. Neighbors don't know each other. Even within the household, a lot of people don't know each other too well.