Games for Developing Emotional Intelligence In Family

Getting our children to develop their emotional intelligence and a balanced and healthy self-esteem should be one of the objectives of the parents of the century, as a guarantee of success, both for the establishment of personal relationships to achieve any goal to be achieved during life.

However, the generation gap that separates parents from their children is often difficult training in this type of prosocial skills sharing.

In this article, you will find an emotional education proposal based on the game so you can have fun with your children while teaching them skills intra and interpersonal intelligence.

I know my family

Put an alarm on the clock and Communicate to members of your family who have five minutes to choose which object is which each member would take to a desert island. Then discuss with your children why they chose each particular object, and finally, that each person discuss what gift made you feel more identified and why.

This dynamic is intended that all family members to reflect on the needs that the other members and to what extent are receptive to them.

Positive communication

Ask each family member write down on paper all the things that bothers his parents and siblings and then ask him to say them one individually through the Intesa. The listener can tell the reproaches only positive things like "how beautiful you are today!" or "what do you want me to give you your birthday?".

Practicing this exercise fun get up tension and relax everyone will realize that it is so hard to remember to smile and give the best of each others.

Walking with family

Propose to your children and partner to take a walk in the park, the beach or the mountains, and assigns a task to each one, for example, one set only of the things that are heard, one seen in another the smells, etc.. Then, during lunch or dinner with them said perceptions had each one.

This game aims perceptive walk where each member to reflect on how situations are experienced depending on those aspects that we pay more or less attention, and often, as each one looks at something different, there are misunderstandings.

I count happy solutions

When one of your children you are concerned about a particular situation, ask them to relax and tell a story in which a character lives a similar experience he or she has faced or will have to face, and how to overcome positive way.

The aim with this simple game is to give the opportunity for your son or daughter to relieve tension through symbolic thought, identifying with the protagonist of the story and learning more effective ways of acting against the obstacles he encounters.

As you may have noticed, developing emotional intelligence in children and adolescents is something very simple to use requiring only a little imagination and some patience. What is important in implementing any of these dynamics is to stick to the script and avoid moralizing and preaching to observe reactions that do not like. Remember: only you can approach your child and help him become a better person if you do not judge.

Jenny Hernandez War

www.PsicopedagogiaenCasa.com