Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child
If you think it's a difficult time to be a parent, consider how  challenging it is to be a child in today's world. Recent studies show that children  are more impulsive, disobedient, lonely, sad, irritable, and violent than  ever before. The authors ofEmotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to  Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Childassert that what's needed now is an approach called emotionally intelligent  parenting. An emotionally intelligent parent, according to the authors, follows  the Twenty-Four Karat Golden Rule: "Do unto your children as you would have other people do unto your children." Maurice J. Elias, Steven E. Tobias,  and Brian S. Friedlander pick up where Daniel Goleman's bestsellingEmotional Intelligenceleaves off,  translating Goleman's basic principals into specific parenting tactics for solving daily family issues. The book includes exercises for raising the family "humor quotient," becoming aware of feelings, praising and  prioritizing, and coaching your child in responsible action.Emotionally  Intelligent Parentingis easy to follow, and provides suggestions for parents  at all levels of commitment to the concept. Parents may choose to try some  or all of the exercises, or may simply find it an interesting and  informative read. The "Sound 'EQ' Parenting Bites to Help with Common Family  Issues" closing the book are especially sensible, profoundly compassionate, and effective.--Ericka Lutz--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.