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How to Help Kids Work on Emotional Intelligence

A two-minute news segment on why emotional intelligence matters to children and what parents can do at home. Approachable, non-clinical framing throughout.

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How to Help Kids Work on Emotional Intelligence
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How to Help Kids Work on Emotional Intelligence

A local news segment for parents, not practitioners

  • WCVB Channel 5 Boston
  • 2024
  • 2:13
  • Video

Not every parent will read a book about emotional intelligence. Most will watch a two-minute news segment about it.

The piece covers why emotional skills matter for children's outcomes and what parents can practically do at home, in the register of an evening broadcast rather than a training module.

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Why we recommend it

It gets past the resistance the phrase emotional intelligence sometimes triggers, simply by not sounding like a curriculum.

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Parent newsletters, back-to-school night, and the first link in a series for caregivers new to the topic.

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WCVB Channel 5 Boston · September 23, 2024 · 2:13

News segment. Broadcast pieces summarise research briefly and are a starting point rather than a source.