Emotional Development

• Emotional development


  Exploring one's positive and negative emotions and how one expresses or hides them
• Managing emotions


  Noticing and being aware of your emotions, recognizing what you feel in a particular situation or experience
• Emotionally intelligent person is competent in identifying how various emotions affect him or her
• Emotionally intelligent person


  • Knows how, when, and where to express emotions
  • Stays calm first before uttering hateful words that might be regretted later
• Managing emotions


  1. Being honest with what you feel

  2. Developing various strategies

  3. Being careful with your thoughts
• Managing emotions


  1. Taking time to understand why you feel the way you do before acting upon your emotions

  2. Physical activities such as exercise and playing games, release tensions, clear your minds and give you more time to understanding situations
• Learning from experiences when looking for something positive about the situation
• Knowing how to manage your emotions and that all emotions have positive intent and may be used at your advantage
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)


  • Being aware of your emotions
  • Understanding how others feel and why
  • Managing emotional reactions
  • Choosing your mood
• Emotional intelligence develops as you grow older, some skills develop earlier and may be easier than others
• We can all work to build stronger emotional intelligence