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6. How to Build Kids Emotional Intelligence 2000 7 1999-12-8 How to Build Kids Emotional Intelligence Every year about this time, after it gets cold but before the first snow, preschool teacher Sabrina North asks parents to send in childrens snow clothes. For the next few weeks, she helps 3-year-olds learn how to put on snowsuits, mittens, boots, and hats. Again and again and again, she cheerfully deflects the whining and frustration until all the children can do it themselves. The practicing pays off once the snow comes, but for North, this isnt just about teaching independence. Shes teaching emotional intelligence, or EQ. Huh? EQ refers to social and emotional skills, to a persons capacity for relationships and sensitivity to oneself and others. Its is a bit of a buzzword these days, but the concept of emotional intelligence has been around for decades; anyone who has been in therapy undoubtedly has been exposed to it, and many of us as parents promote it intuitively. That may not be enough, however. In our increasingly diverse, adversarial, and violent world, researchers, educators, and psychologists say emotional intelligence is a survival skill, not something that can be left to chance. Indeed, they argue that EQ is more important than IQ, in 1 6. How to Build Kids Emotional Intelligence 2000 7 fact that EQ promotes IQ, and that in the next millennium, people who are low on it will be miserable. So North starts with 3-year-olds just as they are beginning to see