Pamela Druckerman Quotes

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

You need emotional intelligence; to be happy to take risks; to be competitive and to look forward not backwards.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.