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Equip  your child   with   Emotional Intelligence tools at  ‘EQuip Kids’…..!!

Emotionally intelligent children (children with higher EQ) stand out apart from the rest of children. They are better at  controlling impulses, communication, making thoughtful decisions, solving problems, and working with others.This helps them in leading a more effective life & earns them friends and success. They tend to lead happier, healthier lives, with more satisfying relationships. At school, they do better academically and help create a safe, comfortable classroom atmosphere that makes it easier to learn. As future adults at work they are more productive, and they spur productivity in others.

 As  defined by Yale University psychologist Peter Salovey (who first coined the term emotional intelligence  way  back in 1990) "It is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships." Or

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is about your ability to understand and manage your own feelings and those of others, and to use this information to guide you to relate better, plan more flexibly, make better decisions, think more creatively, prioritize, motivate yourself and others, and enjoy better health. OR

as Maurice Elias, Rutgers University psychology professor, puts it, "It's the set of abilities that helps us get along in life with other people in all kinds of life situations."

Too often we  give importace to child’s cognitive capabilities leaving their emotional  development to destiny!! Even present education favours all efforts taken in improvement of child’s cognitive & physical capabilities leaving behind emotional domain of child’s life.Affective or emotional competency education is the ‘missing piece’ in our educational system. 

Where IQ is a fixed capacity for processing cognitive information, EQ is a set of learnable skills for making great decisions, living in integrity, and connecting with others.The great contributions of modern neuroscience is the realization that emotion and cognition actually work together, (i.e) IQ  &  EQ  are  actually  complementary parts of a whole & healthy person.  

Unlike  IQ, ‘EQ’ of  child can be raised by  various scientifically proven  methods

Emotional training & Emotional Literacy is becoming increasingly recognized  worldover as an aspect of your children's education that has been neglected for too long. Now the importance of our Emotional Literacy as the component that helps us make decisions,solve problems creatively, and manage our relationships well, is being demonstrated by thorough scientific research.

In homes & schools where Emotional Literacy is nurtured with the same concern as IQ, children:

1) Tolerate frustration better,     

2) Get into fewer fights

3) Engage in less self-destructive behaviour

4) More  assertive                                                      

5) Are less lonely                                     

6) Less impulsive                                             

7) More focused

8) More  responsible

9) More popular & outgoing                                            

10) have greater academic achievement.

Raising  “EMOTIONAL  INTELLIGENCE” (EQ) of  children  is  truly  the  need  of  the  hour. We  at  “EQuip Kids” would  like to put  all  our  efforts  in knowing the EQ  of your  child  &  using universally  recognized  measures  to raise his or her Emotional Skills. This will certainly help in the long run to  ‘equip’  your  child  to face all  life situations & will  have  tools to  get along well  in life, be creative, happy &  successful ! 

DR.SANDEEP  KELKAR                                                                          
MD. Dch (Pediatrics)

Child specialist
Founder chairman ‘EQuip Kids’