8 Steps to nurture Emotional Intelligence in your child. Step 2.

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.”