Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
Getting information is one part of learning, but there’s a lot more to it. If we want to develop emotional intelligence skills—our own and children’s—we need a method that honors how humans learn.Alyssa Blask Campbell and Lauren Elizabeth Stauble
Overview: Once I started this book, I just couldn't put it down! Authors Campbell and Stauble have presented a clear and useful method for helping teach emotional intelligence skills. They write with authority and grace, presenting their method in a way that feels authentic and doable. They understand that working with young children is complex and give readers permission to allow themselves room to grow. They remind us that self-care is vital to being able to help our kids through hard times and teach them to self-regulate. We have to be able to regulate ourselves before we can teach regulations skills to children and self-care is a big part of that equation.
Who this book is for: Preschool and elementary school teachers and parents of young children will find this book invaluable.
Key Takeaways:
- Emotions are unique and to each person and are constructed by individual experiences.
- Adults need to regulate themselves before they can teach regulation to children.
- Cycling through different states of regulation is a natural process.
- There is more to learning than just getting information.
- Children need to be ready to learn a new skill before teaching it to them will work. This means that they need to have the foundational skills and they need to feel safe.
- If a child is not ready to learn a new skill, their attention will drift and they will likely get frustrated.
- We need to allow room for emotions to exist and for children to have and experience hard times. If we immediately swoop in to rescue our kids from hard times, they won't learn from the experience.
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