Children: how do you raise them emotionally competent?

It seems that emotions can be raised. Let’s talk about emotional education related to children, it seems that neuroscience is helping: this is explained by the educator and researcher of socio-emotional education, Davide Antognazza. The expert advises how you can raising emotionally competent children at school and at home. Society must therefore also be able to train the human part of emotions, precisely because they exist.

Until many years ago, the elusive was thought to be irrational. Many think that emotions should be put aside in logical decisions, instead emotions play a big role in important day-to-day decisions. Emotions also exist in classbecause it is a place of human relations.

First of all, the world of emotions simply exists in our children; and then feeling has to do with behavior and concrete life. If you don’t take care of emotions, at least they take care of you: they permeate our actions, we have to deal with them every day. School is still primarily focused on performance and the development of cognitive rather than emotional skills, but there is now a general awareness that the emotional world influences learning. If a subject is fun or a teacher is engaging, the students are attentive due to an emotional connection and not due to their ability to perform a duty. Based on this, the focus on soft skills and transversal skills is increasing strongly and this leads to a review of the organization of lessons, because dealing with the feelings of the students takes time.

pedagogue Davide Antognazza

It is important to let children know what they are feeling. After all, with them there is always a change in attitude, expression and tone. Here we introduce the concepts of knowing how to do, knowing how to be, and knowing how to feel. It is essential to know what you feel, to be aware of how you relate to the world. In particular, being able to deal better with oneself and others. welcome the emotions and parenting behavior are two fundamental factors. Humans need both bad and good emotions in order to evolve. Even an instinctive act is an act that is driven by an emotion.

The most important thing is also to right moments. If a child has a large emotional manifestation, it is necessary to limit himself to being able to accept and control this behavior. You don’t have to create forced moments, but spaces daily. It is essential to recognize the situation by starting to face what we are. For example, in the classroom you have to match the atmosphere of the classroom.

So there must be time for emotional education? Emotional education is at most advisable in kindergarten. It must simply be said that the discourse on emotions must be there both family then at school. If educators, parents, psychologists, and teachers addressed the subject of emotions with collective and individual chats, that would be ideal. Children would find it more natural to talk about their emotions.