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Building Emotional Intelligence: Techiques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda Lantieri, Daniel Goleman
Publisher: Sounds True
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 23992
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/Com
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 155
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1591797896
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.4124
EAN: 9781591797890
ASIN: 1591797896
Publication Date: April 2008
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Condition: Brand New w/ CD (Ships from Northampton, MA)
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Book Description
What's the most important piece of your child's educational program? If you think it's math, science, or grammar, you might be overlooking an element that is fast becoming essential in today's stressful world: cultivating inner resiliency. In Building Emotional Intelligence, pioneering educator Linda Lantieri joins forces with internationally renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman to offer a breakthrough guide for helping children quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and identify and manage their emotions. Now available to the public for the first time, here are Lantieri's proven techniques arranged according to age group, complemented by a spoken-word CD with exercises presented by Goleman. "We need a new vision of education that includes the mind and the heart," says Lantieri. With Building Emotional Intelligence, parents, teachers, and caregivers have the tools necessary to help build these invaluable skills in the children they raise.
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From a parent/educator May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a book that makes sense. So many parents and educators are concerned about the extraordinary amount of stress and pressure our children are experiencing. This book allows educators the opportunity to follow a step by step lesson plan along with other helpful tips to reduce that stress. Parents will find that they can take the activities and do them at home along with their child. Finally we're talking about the part of our children that schools often overlook, their social and emotional well being. It is written in understandable and relatable language. I hope schools will buy this book for every educator and parent in their school community!
Both Powerfully Inspiring and Totally Practical May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I finally had a chance to read Building Emotional Intelligence and found it a refreshing dose of "this is what matters" with a special kid-focused twist. It's absolutely wonderful--so moving and totally practical in a way that will undoubtedly inspire to many parents, teachers, and students. Brava!
A Parent's Perspective April 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved reading this book and found it spoke to me as a parent in this busy, non-stop 21st century world. Raising children in our Vermont school community, I'm sensitive to how busy families are today and how stretched thin we all are. And yet, from conversations I've been lucky to have with caring parents and guardians, it is clear to me that so many of us seek a way to slow down a bit, to share more quiet moments with our families, and to partner with educators in empowering children, including (perhaps most importantly) older students, to address and handle stress in their everyday lives in healthy ways.
I found Building Emotional Intelligence offered step-by-step, practical approaches to allowing this to happen - both at home and in our schools. These approaches enable all of us, children, youth and adults, to tap into resources we already have within us to slow down, reflect, and make mindful decisions. Rather than making parents feel guilty about what we're not doing to support our children, this book invites us to look at what we already are doing that's good - and simply build from there. I also loved Linda's awareness that these steps to children's self-awareness will involve the commitment of all adults, a true village approach to launching children to compassionate, respectful adulthood. She writes, "We must foster the compassion, insight, and commitment to ourselves and each other that will be necessary to tackle the deep emotional, social, political and spiritual dilemmas of our time" (141). I couldn't agree more.
I respectfully invite all parents and guardians to share copies of this book with one another and ask your children's teachers what you might do to support them and their classrooms. Linda speaks of collaboration, and in my mind there is no better way to honor children than to let them know they have a village of adults who care about each of them.
the educational tool I've been waiting for April 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an elementary school counselor for over twenty years I have been looking for effective resources to share with students, parents and teachers that are practical and support the teaching of foundational self-regulation skills. Building Emotional Intelligence is the perfect developmental guide for both educators and parents in this respect, as it is very user-friendly and easy to implement with children of all ages.
The chapters are arranged in developmental stages and clearly describe simple activities appropriate for each school age. The actitivies are also provided in the accompanying CD, which is an ingenious way to support their intended application. My students have been loving the self-calming and focusing exercises on the CD, which have stimulated meaningful discussion. After doing one of the listening exercises on the CD this week, one kindergartener said,'When I feel lonely, I listen to my heart beat and then I know I'm not alone'. A guidance counselor couldn't ask for a more engaged outcome.
Our goal is to share this book with as many teachers and parents in our area as possible. One of our esteemed parents has said about it, 'This could change the world!'. Thank you, Linda, for this much-needed inner, as well as outer, peace tool.
Building Emotional Intelligence April 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a Guidance Counselor at a private school in Miami Florida. Building Emotional Intelligence is a must have book that offers clear strategies to support children in becoming resilient and coping with a fast paced and sometimes stressful world. I have been using the activities and the CD by Daniel Goleman since I read it. My students have really enjoyed the CD and benefitted by the activities offered. I've recommended it to several parents with children who need support coping with day to day stresses and it is great to have a book which I can confidently recommend. It is concisely written and in a format that is easy to access by age group.
This is the kind of book I wished I had when I was raising my children who are now in their twenties. This is a must have for Guidance Counselors and parents.
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