How to Raise a Child with a High EQ : A Parents' Guide to Emotional Intelligence

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Summary: Excelente libro de ayuda para crianza de hijos
Review: Este libro nos ayudó (Marianela y a mí) para crecer emocionalmente nosotros mismos y ser mejores padres para con Marianela (6) y Mariajosé (4).

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Having practiced as a family physician the past 13 years and with an undergraduate degree in psychology, I literally "prescribe" on a prescription pad three books to every couple that comes in and finds out they have a positive pregnancy test; #1. "What To Eat When Expecting" #2. "The American Academy of Pediatrics; Birth To Age Five" #3.How to Raise A Child With a High E.Q. by L. Shapiro.This book is an excellent compilation of what has the world of psychology consumed over the past five years. I initially read Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence" in 1996. Shapiro lays out that concept and adds all the current studies/authors that have presented with related material [ i.e. Seligman's "The Optimistic Child"] into an extremely well-versed, non-psycho babble format. Shapiro then adds his extensive background in applied psychotherapy and makes this all applicable to your child. This is an excellent transition...all that I've read on this topic doesnot do this nearly as well. Read, learn and use this information.

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Summary: This book has already helped us
Review: I read this book because I thought my 5 year old son could benefit from a little more emotional intelligence. Lawrence Shapiro gives the reader many practical, specific things they can incorporate into their family's lives to achieve more emotional intelligence. Could your child be kinder? Start a kindness book where every family member records something they did kind that day, this keeps the focus on being kind. Is time management a problem? Get your kids to bed on time every night, no slipping a few minutes and giving them the idea that deadlines don't matter. These are a couple of the many nuggets offered in this book. Shapiro is a big fan of computers and the internet as tools to develop emotional intelligence, with many quality software titles listed in his book. He does not appear to be a fan of Dr. Spock, believing that the children coming of age in the 60's were raised by parents who believed in Dr. Spock. If you agree with him, you'll love this book, if you don't agree, skip over the editorial comments and benefit from the practical advice he shares.

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Summary: Emotional health explained and applied.
Review: This book explains emotions, how they develop, and how to make sure they develop in a healthy way.

Topics covered include moral emotions (both positive and negative), thinking skills, problem solving, social skills, self-motivation, and emotional control (including nonverbal communication).

I think the information in this book is indispensible for helping a child understand and use their emotions in a healthy way. The book doesn't place blame for all the wrong things parents are doing. It provides explanations of past theories and current research, then specific tools and methods for implementing them are given. The guidance given for age appropriate expectations and excercises makes this a great resource. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A Book That Anyone with Planned or Present Child Should Read
Review: This book is about teaching children emotions through activities, games, changing thinking strategies, problem solving, etc.

I am VERY impressed and I don't even have a child yet! If you are interested in reading a book that could potentially help your child (and you) develop into an even more emotionally stable human being, with the skills to problem solve, deal with the big bad world and excel in education in and out of school, pick this book up. Don't overlook it saying something like, "how dare he say that I can't teach my child how to be emotionally stable! Who does he think he is??".

This book is DAMN GOOD. I don't say that about a lot of books. For example, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" is also DAMN GOOD but it is hell to read. It took me almost a year because I quit after a few chapters as I kept falling asleep.

High EQ, however, is so easy and actually fun to read that you will find yourself whipping through it in no time, taking endless notes and rushing off to your children's rooms to put into effect immediately what you have just learned.

Don't despair when you next see your child doing something unusual. With this book in your toolbox you and your child will be ready to take on the world by storm.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book provided little new or insightful information on the subject. There is very little research provided, and many of the exercises I found to be forced. There is nothing here that any well-read parent with common sense can't naturally figure out on their own. I got the sense that the author was cashing in on Daniel Goldman's seminal work on Emotional Intelligence.

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Summary: If you are smart enough to find this book, you don't need it
Review: This book takes each of the factors of EQ and writes a common sense report on how to enact them for your child. All the author has done is collect published information related to each subject and sprinkled in a bit of his own puritanical ethics. He doesn't mention any specific EQ research of his own.

In fact, no cutting edge research is included, if it exists. While reading this, I envisioned the author sitting in the publisher's office sometime in 1995 accepting another assignment, "Write us a book about this new stuff called EQ, whatever that is." And off he went to the Web and the card catalog. Laughing all the way to the bank, too.

It provides nothing new in regard to EQ. If you know what EQ is, if you want your child to have a high EQ, then you already know most of what is in the book.