LTŠiame straipsnyje pristatomi ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikus auginančių tėvų tyrimo rezultatai. Atliktas tyrimas parodė, kad ugdant vaiko emocinį intelektą svarbu sukurti saugią socialinę ir psichologinę aplinką. Tėvai atskleidė, kad stiprinant tėvų ir vaikų ryšį, šeimoje kuriamos tradicijos: buvimas kartu veikloje, įvairūs pokalbiai – diskusijos, rodomas dėmesys vaikui bei kuriama pozityvi aplinka. Tėvai skatina vaikus identifikuoti emocijas, vysto dialogą bei leidžia pasireikšti emocijoms.
ENChild’s emotional intelligence development can’t rely only on intuition, as in all science it must rely on the accumulated knowledge to make informed decision in educating the younger generation. Adapted foreign practises are applied in Lithuania, which are focused on the social and emotional development of children education. However, only a few percent of education institution use them because most teacher do not have enough knowledge of children emotional skills. It is also important aspect: and / or parents understand the importance of children ability to manage their emotions and /or they themselves are enough emotionally educated. In what way parents contribute to the child’s emotional intelligence education at home? Parents role in emotional intelligence education is to create safe social and psychological environment. In order to strengthen the parent-child relationships parents create a family traditions: being together in activities, various conversations – discussions, the attention for the child and a positive environment creation. Parents encourage children to identify emotions, develop dialogue and let emotions occur. Teacher observe that mostly parents in child’s inadequate behavior response anger to anger, concessions or a fictitious insinuation and with confusion.