Get to know yourself, that"s you! How to understand yourself, parents, and friends

There are many books for the development of emotional intelligence, but they practically do not cover the age of elementary school. This book from expert Victoria Shimanskaya closes this gap. Frankly and in a trusting form, you can discuss with your child such topics as empathy, acceptance of yourself, personal boundaries, fears, resentment.

After 7 years - a special period. The child went to school: you need to get comfortable in the team, get used to daily classes, make lessons, go to mugs and sections. There are new fears, new experiences. The child spends half a day at school, and now it seems that he is moving away, becoming incomprehensible, and also screams, offends and stomps with his feet. What is happening to him? How to help him? How to establish contact and not lose trust?

Victoria Shimanskaya - a doctor of psychology and an expert on the development of emotional intelligence - has prepared a book that will become a bridge between you and your growing child. In it you will find stories about the girl Emmy and the amazing robot of Empi, who knows how to read emotions. Together, they fall into the situations that are understandable and familiar to everyone: an unsuccessful performance in competitions, preparation for the control, delay in the theater, resentment of loved ones, experiences due to appearance. Empi helps Emmy to understand himself, understand parents and people around him. The heroes of these stories are not perfect, they are, just like all of us, they are mistaken and do something wrong, but they will certainly find a way out of all difficult situations.

We suggest you read stories with your child and discuss. The chapters are short - for reading and talking will go literally 15 minutes a day. This will help you better tune in to each other and become closer.

For whom this book
For parents of children from 7 years old.

For parents who want to be closer with their child.

From the author
It will be great if you try to read this book to your children out loud, even if they themselves know how to read. Surely after each chapter you will have something to think about, you will want to discuss something, to argue with something. And that"s good! Be sure to discuss the situation from the book with the child, the behavior of the heroes, say what confuses you, ask what surprised the child. If you want to “play the EMPI ", listen to yourself and your emotions, come up with a new situation and play it, explain how you feel, find a new solution in a difficult situation - it will be wonderful.

And to make it more convenient for you to read the book, we provided it with a special navigator in emotional intelligence. It is very short - rather for inspiration - the topics related to the development of emotional intelligence in children are revealed, and tips are given what story from the book to read on the topic of interest. You can use the navigator as a table of contents: to choose and read the child a story on the topic that today occupies the most, to find stories related to some event that struck you today and which you want to discuss with the child. And you can look into the navigator as a reference book: if after the story you read, you have questions or something caused bewilderment.

About the author
Victoria Shimanskaya - Doctor of Psychology, author of the first Russian patented methodology for the development of emotional intelligence of children, teacher and active mother. This is how Victoria tells about herself:

"Hello! I am Victoria, Doctor of Psychology, teacher of MGIMO, MIP, Skolkovo, founder of the Skillfolio digital university and expert on the development of emotional intelligence (EQ) Do you know what EQ is? If it is quite simple, this is the ability to realize your emotions and use them for the good. This science is very interesting: I have been doing it for 16 years. And I also help boys and girls learn to live in this world, find their calling, develop and become conscious, happy adults.
For secondary school age