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Emotional Intelligence

August 13, 2018August 19, 2018 tenderheartedparent

One of the areas I really want to concentrate on this year with my kids at home and in my class is developing emotional intelligence. What is emotional Intelligence?Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to be aware of, control and express ones emotions. The term was made popular in the mid 90's by author Daniel Goleman… Continue reading Emotional Intelligence

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teacher as parent or parent as teacher

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 tenderheartedparent

I have learned a lot about about myself as a person since becoming a parent. If you had said to me four and half years ago that I would be a mother who co-sleeps, wears her babies, has breastfed them past the age of two and had a natural home-birth I would have looked at… Continue reading teacher as parent or parent as teacher