Nekole Eaton - The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Parenting & Life

Purposeful parent Nekole Eaton shares insights on several topics including why raising emotionally intelligent children is so important. Nekole is on a mission to empower and inspire parents out there as a conscious parenting coach, pediatric occupational therapist, and also through her YouTube channel “Kids OT Help” where she creates practical and meaningful content tied to enhancing child development. In this episode, Nekole shares some of her purposeful parenting strategies in raising her two kids Kai and Nya.

Nekole discusses ideas such as honoring a child’s authenticity, prioritizing emotional intelligence, allowing children to identify their emotional and physical feelings, how emotional regulation is tied to facing challenges in life, how books can teach kids lessons, modeling emotional awareness for our children, utilizing daily emotional check in points, creating space for conscious conversations, having reflective dialogue with children, mastering our self power, the importance of courageously taking calculated risks, why we must show vulnerability in front of children, how releasing tears can lead to overcoming life’s adversities, how both sexes are conditioned negatively to restrict emotions, & how an emotionally intelligent world would improve human relationships significantly.

Nekole’s parenting mission statement: To lead ourselves first and our children will follow.

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Website - https://www.nekoleamber.com/