Want emotionally intelligent kids? Experts say it starts with how you handle their feelings — and yours.

Dr. Becky Kennedy is known for her science-backed parenting advice and podcast called “ Good Inside .” She recently spoke with Dr. Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. They discussed how we think about parenting and emotions. In his research, Brackett found the No. 1 reason parents don’t ask their kids about their feelings is fear.

“They are afraid of not knowing what to do, and so what do you do when you don’t know what to do?” Brackett said. “You go to automatic, habitual, former ways that you learn things, which is my mother’s way of like, ‘I’m going to my room and you’re going to your room and we’re not talking.’ That’s the extreme,

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