How Toddlers Workshop enhances emotional intelligence

(Written by a mom who is a psychologist)

• TODDLERS WORKSHOP assists you to objectively learn through observing your child by using eye contact rather than over explaining yourself verbally and with ineffective praise.
• The mother’s full attention is given to the child’s individual needs
• Participation happens on an equal basis and increases self-empowerment of the child
• The mother describes the problem (she does not solve it) and guide the child towards effective problem solving
• The mother describes the feeling objectively and therefore the child will engage in cooperating more effectively
• The child makes the choices and thereby increases his autonomy
• The mother is consistently put in a position to respect the child’s struggle and not to answer the questions at once, but to rather reflect it back to the child
• The mother needs to consistently show her respect for her child’s eventual “readiness” to engage in an activity
• It is emphasized that “No” is a rigid uncreative word
• Consistent respect for the child’s needs is emphasized
• To be able to contain your child in the workshop, you need to integrate your own discontentment, or else you will project it onto your child
• The workshop offers you time to get to know your child in the many facets of his life
• The workshop focuses on increasing positive attitudes and will give mothers and children an important introduction to object consistency – a basic need every child has