Emotional Intelligence - Teach Your Child Problem Solving : Life is an amalgamation of life situations. Life situations undergo different phases. There are happy as well as sad, successful as well failure moments. The different phases of life creates varying emotions. Teach your child to breathe through the emotions, feel them, tolerate them without needing to act on them , and once the emotions are under grip , to problem solve and act if necessary. Most of the time once the child feels that their emotions are well taken , the feeling looses charge and gets dissolved. This opens the pathway for problem solving. Sometimes the child can solve the problem himself / herself and sometimes he or she needs the help of parents. This is the testing time for parents. Please resist the urge to rush in and handle the problem for them. This will lead to helicopter parenting and an indirect message will go to the child that you don't have confidence in his / her ability. Allow the child to solve his or her problem under your hidden watchful mental eyes. Let the child develop the confidence to solve the problem. It is a must for developing balanced emotional intelligence.