Parent with Emotional Intelligence
Increase awareness, make better choices, and be more purposeful as a parent. Learn to navigate your child’s emotions – and your own – more effectively.
We support parents and families to thrive with emotional intelligence.
Parenting is the toughest job on the planet. There’s nothing like it — little to no training, steep learning curve, constant failure, and punishing hours. It increases stress and complexity, and often evokes big, challenging feelings. Emotional intelligence is being smarter with feelings, and it is an essential skillset for parents to cope and thrive.
Parents who practice emotional intelligence develop essential skills alongside their children, including how to:
• Navigate increasing complexity and stress
• Foster positive, healthy relationships
• Spark innovation and resilience
• Nourish compassion and inner peace
Research links emotional intelligence to better health, academic achievement, and stronger relationships.
Identify your patterns and
make more intentional choices.
How do YOU respond to an infant’s sleepless nights, a toddler’s temper tantrums, or to a teenager’s rude behavior? Parents all over the world use Six Seconds tools and methods to cope with stress, navigate complexity, maintain balance and energy, and build healthy, sustainable relationships with their children.
Build a foundation for success
with emotional intelligence.
Explore our major areas of expertise:
Navigate Stress
It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Learn techniques to manage stress and navigate emotions more effectively.
Nourish Compassion
Teach your children how to respond with empathy to themselves and others.
Build Trust
Use emotional intelligence to create a shared feeling of psychological safety and belonging.
Grow Self-Awareness
Recognize your patterns around specific thoughts, feelings and actions – and learn to see all your options.
Parenting Resources
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10 Simple Ways to Build Trust as a Parent
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Kids & Screen Time: 5 Practical Tips for Parents
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Want Less Conflict with Your Kids? Try Empathy
3 Steps to Get Started Today
1. Read Whole-Hearted Parenting
How can emotional intelligence help us be the parents we mean to be?
“Josh Freedman offers parents sane and sound advice about how to raise good kids. Whole-Hearted Parenting is a reader-friendly, no-blame guide to parenthood that any mom or dad will find of great use – especially in those trying moments when it’s not clear what to do.”
You’ll learn practical tips and techniques to:
- Effectively blend thinking and feelings in your parenting
- Use emotions to help focus and motivate your kids
- Leverage the power of optimism to make parenting more fun
- Respond intentionally instead of reacting on autopilot
- Strengthen empathy to better understand and influence your child
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2. Join Emotional Intelligence Certification
Want to unlock your potential as a parent with emotional intelligence training?
We recommend two courses for parents looking to grow and practice emotional intelligence:
Unlocking EQ – Dive into the how, what, and why of emotional intelligence and learn about the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence. Two 1.5 hour sessions, live online, and a prerequisite for all advanced courses.
EQ Practitioner
This course starts with your customized EQ assessment, followed by three full days of hands-on, dynamic instruction, activities, current neuroscience, practical tips and more.
You’ll learn how to:
- Clarify your purpose and most important goals.
- Explore your patterns and self-limiting beliefs.
- Make better decisions by evaluating all your options.
Leave with an in-depth understanding of emotional intelligence and practical new tools to apply immediately in your life.
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3. Collaborate 1-on-1 with a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach.
Ready to dive in and start solving your most pressing problems with a certified EQ coach?
Combine Six Seconds’ assessments for both adults and youth with experts who can help you unpack the results and turn insight into action. Just contact us and we’ll put you in touch with a Six Seconds Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach.
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Featured Articles
Stagnation & Vitality: The Value of EQ in Japan
As we’re working to create economic vitality, we need also to re-invigorate the “people-side” as well. EQ provides a structure to do this in way that’s both practical and scientific.
Case Study: EQ Declines During Medical School
Recent research at Liberty University finds that medical students’ emotional intelligence scores declined across the board during their training – even as a growing body of evidence points to the importance of EQ in modern healthcare.
The 3 Characteristics Leaders Are Remembered By
We’ve done trainings all over the world, and people consistently describe exceptional leaders with a similar set of adjectives. What are they, and would you be described that way?
Feeling Anxious About Giving Feedback? 3 Steps to Ensure a Productive, Compassionate Conversation
Feeling anxious about giving feedback? You’re not alone. It’s one of the hardest and most uncomfortable aspects of leadership. Here’s a 3-step process to give feedback with EQ.
Thriving Women Leaders & Holistic Coaching
This is the story of a small group of female L&D professionals in Peru who came together to get certified in the SEI – and walked away with a much deeper transformation.
Amadori Case: Engagement, EQ & Performance
In a three-year study of AMADORI, a supplier of McDonald’s in Europe, emotional intelligence, individual performance, organizational engagement, and organizational performance were assessed. Emotional intelligence was found to predict 47% of the variation in manager’s performance management scores. Emotional intelligence was also massively correlated with increased organizational engagement with 76% of the variation in engagement predicted by manager EQ. Finally, plants with higher organizational engagement achieved higher bottom-line results building a link between EQ->Engagement->Performance. During this period, employee turnover also dropped by 63%.