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EMOTIONAL LITERACY is the first step towards building your emotional intelligence. It is the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our emotions. It is an essential skill that we must work to develop. As we evolve and our cultures change, new forms of literacy are required to give us the proper tools to deal with a broad and ever-changing spectrum of issues. Emotional Literacy is a key to taking advantage of all possibilities. It is basic to joy and happiness in life and fundamental to your ability to love others.

As a new parent, you embarked on a life-long journey with your child. Our Kids EQ books are like a MapQuest for you to use along that journey.  We have identified the key concepts that will serve as a guide for a new understanding about emotions that you and your child will experience together. Many of us will be learning emotional literacy along side our children, only now, in the 21st century, Emotional Literacy is starting to be taught in schools. The tools and techniques laid out in these books apply as easily to adults as they do to children. Truly experiencing a world of emotional literacy with your child depends upon you learning and understanding the concepts in emotional literacy as well as helping your child along the way.

–Ayman Sawaf

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