153: Developing Emotional Intelligence in Your Child with Gabriela Blanco

Motherhood Meets Medicine

When your child is being hurt emotionally or physically by other kids or hurting others themselves do you know how to talk to them?

Gabriela Blanco shares some tips on talking to our kids in ways they will understand when something like this happens. She also discusses how to deal with the emotions and feelings this brings up and how to listen deeply to what our children are saying. Gabriela says that validating their feelings but also setting boundaries is much more effective than saying “how do you think the other child feels?”

Gabriela is the founder of healing parents, and creator of the healing parents approach. She supports humans who are intentionally healing while parenting with the tools, support and community to experience close lasting and connected relationships with their children and themselves. Gabriela is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico, was raised in Southern California, and has been living in Oaxaca, Mexico for the past 18 years.

Listen as Gabriela discusses how to handle sibling fighting to make your home a more drama free environment. If you have kids that fight and argue this is one episode you don’t want to miss.

In this episode, we discuss:

Effective ways to help children understand and relate to the feelings of others.

How to handle it when our children get hurt emotionally.

Techniques to help children take responsibility for their feelings and actions.\

Resources:

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff

A Kids Co

Connect with Gabriela:

Healing Parents Course

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Questions:

What would our world look like if everyone who was hurting was able to get help?

How can we help our kids understand and relate to children who are mean to them?

What examples can you give to help handle the situations as they occur?

Sibling fighting, how do we handle it?

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