Daniel Goleman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, Emotional

• School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

• Happy, calm children learn best

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Calm, Classroom

• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

  Daniel Goleman

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Feelings, Emotion

• Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

• Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Kids, Smartphones

• We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Ranking, Helping

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.74, Bantam

• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Opportunity, Play

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