Now after we’ve made the first step towards raising emotionally intelligent children, what is next? Step 2: Encourage conversation.“Have mandatory family-talk time,” advises Tom Kersting, licensed psychotherapist and author of Disconnected: How To Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids. “The average parent spends three and a half minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children. Make it a rule for the whole family to sit together for at least 15 minutes per night and, well, talk.”
SOURCE:
Mary Sauer (September 8, 2017). “8 Signs You’re Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children” [Blog Post]. Retrieved from here
In text: (Mary Sauer, 2017)