Use Your Emotions Rather than Let Your Emotions Use You
Do your emotions interfere with your parenting? Do they keep you from being the calm, loving parent you want to be? Are emotional outbursts all too common in your home?
This course, based on the books Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by Dr. John Gottman, is designed for parents to learn how to use their emotions to reach their goals and help their children do the same.
8 Lessons
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Module One
Emotions are NOT Your Enemy
Know your level of emotional intelligence
Assignment 1 Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment
To establish a baseline to measure your emotional growth
Module Two
Exploring Emotions
Learn about your emotions.
Assignment 2 My Emotions Journal
Identify your emotions, which ones are most frequent and what you can learn from them.
Module Three
Understanding Our Emotions
Identify events and situations that influence your emotions.
Assignment 3 Questions to Ask Myself
Answer specific questions to gain a deeper understanding of your emotions
Module Four
What causes our emotions?
Explain where our emotions originate
Assignment 4 What are my triggers?
Identify events and situations that initiate a knee-jerk reaction