Teaching Reason (to Children)

[thesummerqueen]

Understanding your emotions and understanding how to communicate them effectively is important. Allowing your emotions to rule your reasoning is not a very good strategy.

This is the biggest thing we are impressing upon my daughter right now. We have been able to cut temper tantrums down by about 70% because she's learning how to ask for what she wants, and she can tell us when she's frustrated about something.

Keep doing that. The best (in my opinion) compliment I ever got my from former lovers was that I was direct and honest about how I felt and didn't play emotional games with myself or with them. Being able to communicate properly is also a best thing you can teach a kid for how to deal with the rest of humanity.