Answer: Teach your child how to regulate their negative emotions.
1. Selling Social and Emotional Learning: An Interview with Daniel Goleman
A 6-minute video where Daniel Goleman, author of the best-selling books Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, explains how social-emotional learning is essential for children’s education and in fact boosts academic performance:
2. Stop. Think. Act: Social & Emotional Learning
This 8-minute video describes how many primary schools are now teaching social-emotional learning skills in the classroom, with excellent results:
3. An Introduction to Social and Emotional Learning
A 4-minute overview explaining what social-emotional learning is and how it helps the child.
4. The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
This 20-minute video presentation by leading Affective Neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, discusses recent research that supports the need to teach children how to control their negative emotions and to develop their positive emotions.
Key quotes from his talk:
Social-emotional learning changes the brain.
Our task is to take the reins and promote positive brain changes, and one of the central vehicles is through social and emotional learning.
Qualities such as patience, calmness, cooperation and kindness should really now best be regarded as skills that can be trained. They’re not traits that we are irrevocably given by our early environment or by our genetics.