Guiding thousands of couples and parents with hundreds of publications on family dynamics and 40 years of breakthrough research on emotional intelligence, Dr. John Gottman developed the emotion coaching approach to parenting based on research he has conducted on emotional intelligence and parenting styles, which presents the ways for parents to raise emotionally intelligence children and establish a positive and long-lasting connection with them.

 Gottman describes emotion coaching as follows: “Parents who are emotion coaches notice lower intensity emotions in their children. They consider emotions as an inherent part of development and are patient to the negative emotions of their kids. They help their children verbally label their emotions. They empathize with their children even when misbehaviour has occurred. 

 Children learn how to regulate their emotions and establish social relationships with empathy from their parents. This emotional experience that starts with connection goes on throughout a child’s development. Research shows that children with higher emotional intelligence often experience fewer emotional, social and physical problems and misbehave less frequently.