Emotional intelligence is something we strongly advocate with our partners at UNESCO. It's about being aware of one's feelings, others' feelings, and understanding them. It's about being able to read body language and tone of voice, and knowing what emotions are being shown, and naming them. Empathy and compassion is also important part of emotional intelligence towards others, animals or nature. It also covers behavioural skills of knowing how to react when and why called emotional self-regulation. By age four, children learn how to use some mechanics to self regulate, such as covering their eyes when scared. Kids can develop their emotional intelligence skills by playing games that help recognising feelings, caring for others, collaborating with others, and of course through discussing the with their parents about the feelings games have inspired.
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