{"id":1045,"date":"2019-06-06T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/?page_id=1045"},"modified":"2020-05-02T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:00:28","slug":"message-from-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/message-from-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eng.-web-banner_\u89aa\u5b50\u7de8\u8005\u7684\u8a71-01-1024x369.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1177\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eng.-web-banner_\u89aa\u5b50\u7de8\u8005\u7684\u8a71-01-1024x369.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eng.-web-banner_\u89aa\u5b50\u7de8\u8005\u7684\u8a71-01-300x108.png 300w, http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eng.-web-banner_\u89aa\u5b50\u7de8\u8005\u7684\u8a71-01-768x277.png 768w, http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eng.-web-banner_\u89aa\u5b50\u7de8\u8005\u7684\u8a71-01-1920x692.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Living in the world with advanced technology, rapid globalization, diversified and multifaceted stimulants, children and youngsters are generally more intelligent and quick-minded.<\/p>\n<p>It is a common belief among educators and theorists that successful careers and happy lives depend less on intellectual and cognitive ability, but more on emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly intangible and incomprehensible, emotional intelligence is believed to be an under-explored element that can be learned, acquired, practised, internalized and eventually become a habit and a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>This series of Family Editions of Little Mushroom story books is launched in an attempt to help children become more competent in identifying, expressing and managing their own emotions, and thus enhancing their quality of life. On the other hand, children are guided to<br \/>\nrecognize, communicate and handle others\u2019 emotions for better interpersonal relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Through the presentation of the lovely cartoon character Little Mushroom, lively stories, diversified follow-up parent-child activities such as picture colouring, sharing, speaking practice, sticker fun, role plays and rhymes, children are guided to be equipped with higher emotional competence in a lively way.<\/p>\n<p>In all story booklets, \u2018Emotional Intelligence Tips\u2019 provide parents with the knowledge of different positive and negative emotions. \u2018Parent Tips\u2019 after every activity give hints to parents for nurturing children\u2019s different emotional competence. Family Editions of Little Mushroom<br \/>\nStory Books contain vibrant materials for emotional education and parent-child communication. We hope all readers, children, parents and teachers would find these story books enjoyable and useful in promoting emotional intelligence among those in the younger<br \/>\ngeneration and lead them to live a happier and brighter life!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Author,\u00a0 Hong Lo Chi-chun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #999999;\">PhD, HKU (Counselling, Personal &amp; Social Education)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #999999;\">MEd, HKU (Guidance and Counselling)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: #999999;\">Founder Principal,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #999999; font-size: 12px;\">PLK Ngan Po Ling College<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the world with advanced technology, rapid globalization, diversified and multifaceted stimulants, children and youngsters are generally more intelligent &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1045","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqmushroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}