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Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living and dealing with Behavioural Challenges in Children

Presented at the Teens/Children Teachers’ Training Programme, Living Faith Church, Ado-Ekiti

July 20, 2024

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Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari

Coordinator, Children Department, St Peter’s Anglican Church, Oke-Ureje, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

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Outline

  • Children of this age
  • Emotional Intelligence: What about it?
  • Behavioural Challenges in Children: How to Deal with it
  • Healthy Living Tips
  • Something More

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Children of this Age

  • Can we characterise them?

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EQ QUIZ

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Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient (EQ)

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

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Skills for Emotional Quotient

  • The ability to perceive emotions
  • The ability to reason with emotions
  • The ability to understand emotions
  • The ability to manage emotions

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"Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.“�- Aristotle

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Importance of Emotional Intelligence

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Components of EQ

  • Self-Awareness- ability to recognize moods, emotions, and feelings
  • Empathy- ability to understand the emotions of other people
  • Self-Regulation- making use of the knowledge of your emotions and not let them rule your life
  • Motivation- capability to manage your behaviours and feelings in order to achieve long-term success

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Components of EQ cont’d.

  • Social Skills- dealing with people effectively, healthy relationships
  • Expressiveness-  know how to express emotions appropriately
  • Perceptiveness- looking at a situation and correctly identifying the true source of your feelings

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Behavioural Challenges in Children: How to Deal with it 1

Credit: Minding Kids

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Behavioural Challenges in Children: How to Deal with it 2

  • Prayer/Take authority- Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery”- Acts 13:8-10

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  • Counsel- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction- 2Timothy 4:2

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  • Discipline- “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him” Prov 13:24. See also Hebrews 12:5-10, Matt21:12;

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  • Friendship- “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”- Mat 19:14

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Healthy Living Tips

  • Romans 12:1-2
  • 1 Timothy 4:8
  • Prov 31:17 (ASV)
  • 1 Cor. 6:19-20
  • 1 Cor. 10:31
  • 1 Cor. 9:24-27 ESV
  • 1 Cor 3:17

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Something More: The Person and Place of the Holy Spirit

  • Isaiah 11: 2- And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord
  • 1John 2:20, 27- You know all things
  • John 14:26 “…He will teach you all things…”
  • Rom 8:26 “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness…”

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