Parenting Emotional Intelligence at Home — Digital Workbook

Sometimes, your child's behaviour is asking for understanding — not just correction.

Children between the ages of 6 and 9 are learning how to understand their feelings, navigate friendships, manage big emotions and understand how their words and actions affect other people. When something goes wrong, it can be easy to reach straight for a reprimand.

But sometimes children need something more. They need help understanding what happened, why it matters, and what they can do differently. This workbook gives you a structured way to do that.

WHAT'S INSIDE

1. Understand what is really happening — pause, gather the facts, before you respond
2. Reset yourself first — your own calm before the conversation
3. Have the first conversation — a short, warm way to open it
4. Explain it — feelings, meanness, and where the behaviour leads
5. Standing up to friends — it's okay not to go along
6. The friendship audit — done together, side by side
7. Repair, not performance — beyond a forced apology
8. Teach the replacement skills — what to do instead
9. Build the home structure — agreements, consequences, praise
10. Work with the school — and know when to escalate
11. Weekly check-in & four-week review — revisit and track progress

ONE FILE, HOWEVER YOU LIKE TO WORK

This is one digital workbook, and it works both ways. Open it on your laptop or phone and type your responses directly into the PDF — your answers save as you go, so you can close it and come back to it. Or print it and write into it by hand, the way you would any workbook. Same 22 pages, same exercises, whichever way suits you.

We recommend a quiet, uninterrupted moment to work through it — not something to complete while driving, rushing between appointments, or answering in the middle of a busy day. You don't have to finish it in one sitting. It also includes a four-week review and progress tracker, designed to be revisited.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WORKBOOK?

Sometimes the workbook gives you clarity. Sometimes it gives you more questions — a pattern you hadn't noticed, or something you realise you've been missing. That's where a Workbook Debrief Session can help.

Parent Coaching — Licensed Indigenously Parenting Coach™ — R2,500
Founder Coaching — Nomveliso Mbanga — R4,250

Coaching sessions are booked per child, so each child's particular circumstances get the attention they need. The coaching session is not included in the price of the workbook.

Mayine Development Institute
an indigenous-based approach to human development