Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.4124
EAN: 9781591797890
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1591797896
Label: Sounds True, Incorporated
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 155
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Studio: Sounds True, Incorporated

What's the most important piece of your child's educational program? If you think it's math, science, or grammar, you might be overlooking an element that is fast becoming essential in today's stressful world: cultivating inner resiliency. In Building Emotional Intelligence, pioneering educator Linda Lantieri joins forces with internationally renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman to offer a breakthrough guide for helping children quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and identify and manage their emotions. Now available to the public for the first time, here are Lantieri's proven techniques arranged according to age group, complemented by a spoken-word CD with exercises presented by Goleman. "We need a new vision of education that includes the mind and the heart," says Lantieri. With Building Emotional Intelligence, parents, teachers, and caregivers have the tools necessary to help build these invaluable skills in the children they raise.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A great resource.
Comment: I loved reading this book. As a parent and educator, I am constantly worried about the impact of today's difficult times on children. This book not only addresses this issue, it actually provides guidelines about how to deal with it. The activities mentioned are easy to follow, and tailored for kids in different age groups. A great resource for teaching our children better ways to deal with stress and ensure their social and emotional development. The CD is an added bonus.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Long overdue
Comment: As part of the respected research on mindfulness, cultivating inner strength in children has been mentioned but parents had no guide. This book is extraordinarily concrete. It not only gives parents (and grandparents!!) means to help children, but it strengthens the bond between them. In a day when videos and computers all but raise kids, deeply human understanding will help keep kids balanced and they look forward to doing these things with people who care about them. Get the book for your adult children who are parents, yes--but better, spirit away your grandchildren for these kinds of times which happen with you. A much-needed resource.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: From a parent/educator
Comment: This is a book that makes sense. So many parents and educators are concerned about the extraordinary amount of stress and pressure our children are experiencing. This book allows educators the opportunity to follow a step by step lesson plan along with other helpful tips to reduce that stress. Parents will find that they can take the activities and do them at home along with their child. Finally we're talking about the part of our children that schools often overlook, their social and emotional well being. It is written in understandable and relatable language. I hope schools will buy this book for every educator and parent in their school community!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Both Powerfully Inspiring and Totally Practical
Comment: I finally had a chance to read Building Emotional Intelligence and found it a refreshing dose of "this is what matters" with a special kid-focused twist. It's absolutely wonderful--so moving and totally practical in a way that will undoubtedly inspire to many parents, teachers, and students. Brava!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Parent's Perspective
Comment: I loved reading this book and found it spoke to me as a parent in this busy, non-stop 21st century world. Raising children in our Vermont school community, I'm sensitive to how busy families are today and how stretched thin we all are. And yet, from conversations I've been lucky to have with caring parents and guardians, it is clear to me that so many of us seek a way to slow down a bit, to share more quiet moments with our families, and to partner with educators in empowering children, including (perhaps most importantly) older students, to address and handle stress in their everyday lives in healthy ways.

I found Building Emotional Intelligence offered step-by-step, practical approaches to allowing this to happen - both at home and in our schools. These approaches enable all of us, children, youth and adults, to tap into resources we already have within us to slow down, reflect, and make mindful decisions. Rather than making parents feel guilty about what we're not doing to support our children, this book invites us to look at what we already are doing that's good - and simply build from there. I also loved Linda's awareness that these steps to children's self-awareness will involve the commitment of all adults, a true village approach to launching children to compassionate, respectful adulthood. She writes, "We must foster the compassion, insight, and commitment to ourselves and each other that will be necessary to tackle the deep emotional, social, political and spiritual dilemmas of our time" (141). I couldn't agree more.

I respectfully invite all parents and guardians to share copies of this book with one another and ask your children's teachers what you might do to support them and their classrooms. Linda speaks of collaboration, and in my mind there is no better way to honor children than to let them know they have a village of adults who care about each of them.

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