Publisher's Synopsis
'I realise' series: Acquiring essential emotional skills from an early age - Mindfulness concepts for children.'To realise' means to discover, to gain self-awareness and discover others, things, the world, etc. And then, 'to realise' also means to achieve and to succeed.'I realise' is a collection of stories for children, aimed at developing emotional intelligence from an early age.Learning early is a good idea, would you agree? But learning what? And particularly why and how? Growing up in a society where soft skills are not usually addressed as much as, or rarely before hard skills, children often struggle far too long before they discover, if they ever do, how their feelings guide their decisions, how their moods influence their relationships, and how their attitude impacts their aptitude. This is because our culture prioritises results over mechanism. We focus on learning in the traditional sense, on grasping and achieving 'things' before understanding how we function in order to learn, grasp, and achieve.However, a general awareness of this imbalance is rising. A growing number of adults discover the benefits of mindfulness for improving diverse aspects of their life, professional or personal. And there is an increasing amount of literature on the subject. Nevertheless, although self-help or coaching may be welcome, it often occurs unnecessarily late in a life's journey. These 'I realise' stories are designed to help children acknowledge their own and others' feelings, understand the relationship between their thoughts and feelings, develop empathy, self-efficacy, confidence, responsibility and resilience, so that they are equipped to make effective choices and to succeed. In order to choose well, we need to have a good awareness of our options, and of the factors affecting our choices, which include recognising and taking into account emotions and their influence on us. The 'I realise' book series aims to develop that awareness in children, helping them to acquire skills, which are hard to measure and yet so important in anyone's life. They are life skills that play such a huge role in everything we do and contribute so enormously to everyone's success and wellbeing that we absolutely need to honour these skills. They constitute our emotional intelligence, an intelligence that the 'I realise' series aims to develop from childhood, for we all know now that Emotional Intelligence deserves at least as much attention as we pay to Intellectual Quotient. Enjoy reading and sharing!
