The Personal Intelligence and Constructive Leadership in Children

Most indicators in the pre school education are aimed at enabling children as positive leaders, who in the future will be able to navigate their environment with security and confidence so they can achieve their goals and dreams and lead others in the same way. Development of Personal Intelligence is closely linked to this activity and others as they develop philosophers, theologians, sociologists and religious leaders, teachers and principals, psychologists, counselors and therapists, politicians, researchers, journalists and marketers. ( Inteligencias Múltiples, Cómo Descubrirlas y Desarrollarlas, Dras. Rafaela y Pilar Huertas Camones)

Interpersonal Intelligence:

• Having the ability to empathize with others, ie the child learn to die to his egocentric nature to feel what another person is living is not going through the same
• Sensitivity to perceive and understand the feelings of others: are children who realize when mom is worried or sad, for example. When this sense is more developed are sometimes able to realize the intentions may have the people.
• Have the ability to teach and train others.

Intrapersonal Intelligence:

• Proper self-esteem.
• Acting in accordance with its principles and values, people are firm in their decisions and rely on their beliefs or principles regardless of social pressure.
• Managing emotions and feelings.
• Having the above skills it entails to be self-taught, ie it instructs and makes learning new knowledge through their own means.
• Work to improve your inner self.

Identifying the Personal Intelligence on my Child:

• He is comfortable working alone or in groups, is one of those kids that is easy to adapt them to new groups, normally included in circles of different types of nature that can be study or games not necessarily because excels in this area.Unaffected changes, it is more the changes are a new opportunity for fun.
• These children are attracted to spiritual matters.
• These children set goals despite being small.
• He likes to serve others, are children who are always ready to support the teacher in class, when a child stumbles or hit is the first to come to console him, is easy to say the positive qualities to his companions: Win friend how well; It is tolerant of others, not easily frustrated and bore others to reach their goals, for example are those that make bars with friends at a competition and directs others to support it.
• These are children who speak in a group when others are silent to hear their opinions often decide the direction it will take the group where they move, for example. in a group of children playing make believe that all but one of them gives his opinion to play football and gives reasons that can convince others to do so are not in agreement.
• Has more than two close friends and are able to conserve their friends.

How to Develop this Type of Intelligence

• Promoting debates which express their views and can argue their reasons, it may be after reading through the questions: why, what, how, etc. example, because you think that Tyrannosaurus was so feared by the other dinosaurs, what you do you think was written this story or poem, how was the wolf met Riding Hood, etc, or in the case of deciding where he ask your opinion: why prefer going to the beach to go to the field, etc.
• Giving situations to learn to cope strengthening their personal safety when going to a restaurant, for example, and missing the napkins, ask him is he who call the waiter and correctly asks for it, when you go shopping give the money you need and choose the sweet that you will buy, ask the cost and himself so requests and pays the seller.
• Through proper training your child's self-esteem: refer to it with positive words: me you pride yourself, glad my life, you're smart and capable, you're beautiful, are very noble and kind, etc., remember that the first voice the child hears and therefore the most important is that of their parents praise their achievements, animating it reaches what failed, avoid adjectives that diminish him as spoiled, disobedient; you must correct the action of disobedience and discipline when necessary eradicating behavior but not attacking the child; set limits helps you discern good from bad, right from incorrecto.De discuss this issue further in another blog.
• Teach principles and values by example and daily living: respect for classmates, maintain order in a row, give up your seat to the elderly, if male yield to women, opening the door to pass, etc .; Performing readings teachings where there is a positive learning,: fables, scripture readings age appropriate (no Bibles for children, stories of the heroes of the Bible, etc.).
• Teaching plan their actions simply: with the help a calendar with large numbers, explain that important activities to be performed in that month, if there is a birthday of a family member or your own, if you have a walk or important outlet, if you have extracurricular workshops, using different markers for marking, writing activity to be performed on the date held, this work not only develops intrapersonal intelligence but also mathematics and linguistics.
• Short-term planning goals using questions such as what you would like to learn this year, if answering something that is not consistent help answer a goal that will be visible when met, for example if answering: I would like to be a doctor, you will. say it is very good to be a doctor (long-term goal should not be taken at least but not consistent short-term) and ask him why he wants to be a doctor, then you. would help guiding you to your goal is to learn about how it works the human body but this should read books on the human body or videos of this issue, then your short term goal would be to read a book by the human body.
• Develop a sense of solidarity teach that some people have fewer resources than he who learns to share not old things that do not serve you but useful things and sometimes things that involve a cost. Participate in social welfare activities where toys, food or things are distributed to people in need.
• When someone does not understand an issue that your child does, ask your child who is he who explain it so that desarrrolle the ability to teach and speak properly.