Emotional Life of Families, Child Rearing & Development

How to raise a child with a high EQ

Name: How to raise a child with a high EQ
Author: Lawrence E. Shapiro
ISBN: 9780060187330

by Lawrence E. Shapiro

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In How to Raise a Child with a High EQ, Lawrence E. Shapiro, Ph.D., combines cutting-edge research on childhood development with more than twenty years of clinical experience to offer parents an accessible, practical guide to helping children master the social and emotional abilities that will allow them to be happy and well adjusted. Focusing on the ways to teach children these skills, Dr. Shapiro offers dozens of fun and easy games and activities that will help your child learn to solve problems, cooperate with others, and increase self-confidence. A checklist lets parents rate themselves on how well they currently promote their child's EQ, and a list of dos and don'ts of child rearing offers general guidance for raising emotionally healthy children. Parents need not feel helpless in trying to prepare their children for the inevitable problems and pains of growing up - the shy child can learn how to make friends, the angry child can discover how to resolve conflicts reasonably, and all children can learn to use strategies for coping with physical pain and psychological stress.

A psychologist who has been developing E.Q. (emotional quotient) theories for 20 years now presents an accessible and prescriptive guide that shows parents hundreds of ways by which they can help their children develop important social and emotional skills. 15 cartoon illustrations. 256 pp. Author tour. Radio satellite tour. 40,000 print.

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Emotional intelligence, defined by Daniel Goleman as "abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope," has been shown to be a powerful predictor of success in life. Following on Goleman's excellent best seller, Emotional Intelligence (LJ 9/1/95), are these two books purporting to provide a program for raising one's own E.Q. and that of one's children. In both cases, the authors state that their work, while relevant to Goleman's ideas, is based on decades of experience. However, Segal's (Living Beyond Fear, Borgo, 1987) book seems to be a rehash of the old gestalt notion that the root of most psychological distress is an inability to feel one's "true" emotionsan unproved assertion that has little relevance to Goleman's definition. Readers interested in Goleman's emotional intelligence will be disappointedor badly misledby Segal's book. Recommended only for public libraries with a large and dedicated audience for titles by authors like Wayne Dyer and Robert Covey. The author of numerous works in psychology, Shapiro, on the other hand, actually seems to address the issues included in Goleman's definition. Unlike so many parenting books full of generalizations, this title includes specific ideas for games, projects, and even computer games. Highly recommended for all parenting collections.Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, Wash.