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Handle With Care : Emotional Intelligence Activity Book

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This book is packed with interesting, tangible suggestions for changing the way you perceive and deal with situations while improving the world around you. I found the questions engaging and discussable. There was a particularly refreshing *lack* of the technical terms and hypotheses that often fill other books on emotional intelligence. This is a book for real people.

This was a refreshing change from other books on the same topic. It offers the reader quick reference to specific topics and areas of concern. The activities are easy to understand and to follow. It offered straight-forward realistic suggestions to assist the reader in pursuing improvement of emotional intelligence rather than exploring its causes and effects. It is a wonderful tool to assist parents raising their children and adults raising themselves. I would recommend it highly to family and friends.

After a lengthy parent/teacher conference, our son's 7th grade teacher gave us this book to read/use. Long story short, our son had lied to us regarding assignments. His teacher recommended this book as a way to rebuild the bridge of trust between all of us. We are buying multiple copies to give as gifts. This is a gem.

Handle with Care is one of the few emotional intelligence books that has succeeded in explaining the emotional concepts in a well-written and simple way.

One typical chapter, for example a chapter on initiative, shows activity list, (initiative) quotes, research says, (initiative) fusion questions, and (initiative) inspiration (role models, books, and movies).

Another very positive thing about this book is its focus on high-order emotional intelligence skills such as perseverance, self-control, initiative, accountability, and service to name just a few. This focus is very much unlike other EQ books that concentrate on core skills such as self awareness and self management.

Moreover, the book's bullet lists of activities to practice add to its strength in learning the basic and high-order EQ skills. Also, the stickers and postcards on the back have significantly added value.

I recommend strongly this book to anyone who wants to see a unique EQ book.

Handle with Care is an inspirational guide to an emotionally intelligent state of mind and way of life. This clearly written, detailed account of 24 themes (empathy, optimism, tolerance, resiliency, etc.) each of which will certainly stimulate your curiosity, invites you to contemplate, learn and exercise its resources. This activity book is abundant with inspiring quotes, activities, and useful information for daily existance.

Handle with Care is an inspirational guide to an emotionally intelligent state of mind and way of life. This clearly written, detailed account of 24 themes (empathy, optimism, tolerance, resiliency, etc.) each of which will certainly stimulate your curiosity, invites you to contemplate, learn and exercise its resources. This activity book is abundant with inspiring quotes, activities, and useful information for daily existance.

I usually try to lean towards the nice side of honest in my reviews but this book was so utterly disappointing I have to be brutally honest here. The discussions of the issues are literally only half a page each, so brief, simplified, and elementary that I have to conclude this book was written for little kids who have not yet learned these very basic ideas about life. Their "activities" for dealing with issues are also nothing new. One of their "activities" is to exercise to reduce stress. Wow, really?! (Insert sarcasm here for any of you who didn't pick up on that automatically) The Inspiration section does a better job at making you feel inferior than inspiring you since the average person is unlikely to ever do anything as great as the role models listed. "Inspiring" you with names of people who won Nobel Prizes, or talking about Nelson Mandela surviving 27 years of imprisonment has no practical use whatsoever to the Average Joe reading this book. Not only am I not likely to experience those "inspiring" circumstances, but tell me how reading about them helps me get along better with the jerk at the office? I was really hoping for more practical ideas I could apply to ordinary daily living. If that's what you are looking for, like I was, don't look here. You won't find any. A seriously useless book for anyone over the age of about 7.