Soft Skills und Emotionen sind eng miteinander verknüpft: Wir können mit Sicherheit sagen, dass das Ziel aller Eltern darin besteht, ein gesundes, glückliches und erfolgreiches Kind grosszuziehen und es bestmöglichst auf die Zukunft vorzubereiten. Die Tatsache, dass wir nicht immer in der Lage sein werden, auf unser Kind aufzupassen, ihm zu helfen und ihm entgegenzukommen, ist ziemlich beängstigend. Gleichzeitig kann es für uns Eltern motivierend sein, unserem Kind zum richtigen Zeitpunkt beizubringen, unabhängig zu sein und die notwendigen Fähigkeiten zu erwerben, um auf zukünftige Herausforderungen reagieren zu können: In erster Linie das Aneignen von grundlegenden Soft Skills und mit Hilfe dieser lernen seine Gefühle richtig auszudrücken.
What exactly are emotions?
We can define emotions in the most basic sense as a set of different reactions of the organism to events that are closely related to its needs, goals and even survival itself. They are an important factor in the development of every child and play an essential role in socialization, because through emotions we receive information about our internal state, but also about the state of our interlocutors, which greatly facilitates interpersonal communication and functioning in society .
Awaken your emotions by using essential soft skills:
Soft skills are personal character traits of each individual that cannot be acquired through traditional education, but that we acquire through socialization and communication with the environment, but also with ourselves. These are attitudes, techniques, habits through which we recognize and understand our feelings, but also the feelings of other people and their essence. These are also tactics that we use in communication to respond appropriately to these feelings and build good social relationships. Soft skills like Creativity, responsibility, collaboration, communication, active listening, conflict management are fundamentals for raising a successful, healthy and conscious child who clearly expresses, recognizes and controls their emotions.
By applying these soft skills, expressing and recognizing different emotions in everyday interaction with the child, you as a parent are the primary source of socialization and often the most common and greatest role model for your child. You have the opportunity to act as a role model for your child and thus unconsciously serve as a “model” whose skills, but also emotions, your child will adopt and use in the future:
- Keep emotions in check: Remember that you are the first and often the biggest role model for your children, be careful how you express your feelings around them. Try to avoid extreme emotions that might surprise or frighten them (yelling and arguing will never solve the problem), but instead try to reach out to children with constructive advice and elicit feedback.
- Verbalize your feelings and don't forget to praise good behavior: Each time, try to clearly express the feelings you are feeling and describe why you feel that way. Always thank the child when he or she has helped you with something, praise him or her, and express the feelings you feel toward him or her. In this way, you develop empathy in the child and teach him to behave in the same way, to observe the world around him and to imitate and accept the emotions of other people around him.
- Express emotions through interactive content: Choose your child's favorite book or cartoon and try to encourage your child to recognize, express and absorb the characters' emotions as they read or watch. When reading a book, try to imitate the emotions with your facial expressions, because in this way the child unconsciously acquires knowledge and will be able to react in a similar or the same way next time.
- Play with feelings: If a child has difficulty expressing his emotions, try to provoke him with mime (guessing emotions through acting) or come up with a role-playing game in which you communicate with the child and exchange different emotions. Try to actively participate in such games as little as possible, but immerse your child in the world of fantasy and only suggest themes, interactions and emotions that you should play together (this can also help you figure out what). Your child thinks what might bother or fascinate him).
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