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Emotions are not bad or good. Emotion shouldn’t be praised or criticized or judged. They just are.
In this video, we’re gonna guide you through steps to help your child understand their emotions and the emotions of others.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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in this video we’re gonna guide you
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through steps to help your child
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understand their emotions and the
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emotions of others hello I’m Jason
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Kreitman
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and this is dad University today we’re
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talking about emotional intelligence
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emotional intelligence is like the
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oxygen masks on an airplane you better
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make sure yours is functioning first
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before you help your child the first
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thing you’re gonna want to do is teach
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them that there are different emotions
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happiness sadness fear anger disgust
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you’re gonna want to make sure that they
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understand what these look like maybe
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you need to do some facial expressions
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this is sadness this is anger this is
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disgust have them recognize these
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emotions in themselves when have they
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felt like this is there a time in the
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past where they felt happy or they felt
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sadness get them to relate the time and
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the place or what they were doing with
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how they felt
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you then have to talk about your own
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emotions give them examples of when
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maybe you felt sad or maybe you felt
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unhappy dads often avoid showing emotion
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thinking that we’re protecting our
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children and when reality we’re not
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helping them at all
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next allow them to express their
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emotions allow them to feel whether you
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have a son or a daughter they may be
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scared they may cry it’s okay allow them
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to identify their feelings and express
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it you do not want to stifle that so
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when your children do show emotion be
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sure to be empathetic empathy is a
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crucial component to establishing a good
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relationship maybe they’re crying and
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you say you know I can see that that’s
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really upsetting or they’re scared of
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something allow them to be scared don’t
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get mad
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fact that they’re scared of something
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allow them to feel that emotion and
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finally teach them that emotions are not
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bad or good emotion shouldn’t be praised
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or criticized or judged they just are
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allow people especially your children to
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have the emotion that’s all we have for
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today I hope you enjoyed it
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