Recently we discussed the importance of promoting Emotional Intelligence and also the current trend in child-rearing that minimizescompetition among children. What is the connection between these two developmental goals? How do they connect and/or conflict? How are children affected by each of these processes? How do these processes relate to Critical Thinking? Give at least two references to our class presentations, i.e., the powerpoints and the video presented by instructor on EI, and the student on Competition.
This reply should be at least 100 words.
Sasy C.
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Emotional intelliegence is the ability to get along with other people and having the ability to read other's emotions and responding appropriately. In the case with the competeing of children and not allowing any winners or loser show's children a false sense of reality. Because with all sports and even the competition of being the best student or best employee, the competeing is what makes a person push themselves to be the best or at lease the best person they can be. If a child doesn't learn this from an early age, they will go through life never understanding the importance of pushing oneself to be the best or trying their hardest. For instance in the film where the child lost in the game, he went and hit the girl out of anger. This is an example of not having emotional intellegence and not knowing how to lose gracefully. The other example would be the powerpoint presentation where the children in the science fair all got an award of participation instead 1st, 2nd, 3rd place prizes. It's not realistic to what life is all about.
John H.
ReplyDeleteEmotional Inelliegence is the 9th intelliegence. It is the ability to gt along with other people.It is one of the most important intelliegences that there is. Even giusus can not get along with oters. It is important for children to learn how to compete with others to bette themselves as well secetiy.
Children to day only get certificates for competing, they do not get ribbens for comming in first or second place. They are not prepared to go out in too the world.
PHIL250-951
ReplyDeleteEmotional intelligence is the ablity to read other peoples emotions and respond to the situation correcty. With the current trend of minimizing competition among children we aren’t preparing our children for the real world. There is always going to be a winner and a loser in any competition regardless if it amongst children, co-workers or even college students. If we don't teach our children this at an early age they will not be able to handle it if they feel they haven't succeeded, our goal should be to teach our children win or lose just do the best they can at everything they do.
Jenny B
ReplyDeletePhil 250-951
Having a sense of emotional inteligence allows one to be a well rounded individual. It allows you the knowledge to know how to react to different situations. I believe that it is important for children to learn the concept of competition as it pertains to real life. There is always a winner and a loser, not everyone gets treated the same for participating. In making all of the children the "winners" we are keeping them from understanding how life really is. We will not always be there to protect them.
Amy Schafer
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Children are constantly being faced with harder and harder decisions now a days. The competition is harder and they are learning things in school earlier and earlier. Is it too much for them? When do they have time to be just kids? Developing critical thinking at an early age will in the long run be better for the kids. But when is enough, enough? Some students are being faced with more difficult decisions to fit in. Some kids either have emotional intelligence or they don’t and learning it may be more difficult for some than others.
Sue.S.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes think that emotional intelligence is more inportant that academic intelligence. Children need to be able to get along in the world. These days, it seems that their parents are constantly protecting them for disappointments. It's wonderful that we reward all children for participating in sporting events but the fact is, this is not realistic. Life is all about winning and losing. Children need to learn at an early age that sometmes you win and sometimes you don't. They need to learn how to accpet defeats as well as win gracfully. I believe today's parents are doing their children a great disservice by protecting them all the time and not teaching them about the reality of life.
Angela N.
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Emotional intelligence is how we handle certain situations. I think it also says alot about a individual. Often times someone may not see that sometimes when people suck things up and just not let it get the best of us it will only make us stronger. But yet often men tell their sons not to show their emotions I think that is a bad thing because it is showing them that it is okay to hold things in and let it bottle up.
The way Emotional Intelligence and minimizing competition are that emotional intelligence is how people or in this case mainly children handle situations like group activates, lack of attention, not getting their way, losing at something and even how to get along with others. With the competition part of this question is that officials and parents want all kids to feel like winners so that they don’t feel left out and it is suppose to get rid of poor sports and bad sportsmanship behavior. With both of these topics, its main focus is dealing with how children handle feelings. If EI problems aren’t addressed in a timely manner then it can create bullies and bullies create victims. If this isn’t handled early then those affects can set the tone for the rest of those kids’ lives. With minimizing competition they are keeping kids from learning how to have good sportsmanship, being a good winner, how to handle losing, which in life there are winners and losers and that it is ok to lose. These kids aren’t learning valuable life lessons and I feel that it will hold them back and start to turn into a generation of people that get walked all over.
ReplyDeleteEmotional intelligence is considered the ability to read others emotions and respond to others emotions in an appropriate manner. Emotional Intelligence can be directly connected to the issue concerning the trend in child-rearing that minimizes competition among children. To begin with competition is human nature and is necessary for survival. Teaching competition is where emotional intelligence plays a role. Within competition it is important to have a good attitude whether you win or lose. For a child who has been named a winner in a competition that child needs to understand that despite how happy they may feel it is not necessary to rub that winning in other faces. For those children who lose, it is important to teach them where it was that they may have felt short so that the next time they find themselves in a competition they know where to pick up slack.
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