Mayine Development Institute
Parenting
Emotional Intelligence
at Home
DIGITAL E-WORKBOOK 01 · CHILD DEVELOPMENT WORKBOOK SERIES
Helping your child understand feelings, kindness, and friendship
R135 · ONE FILE, PRINT IT OR FILL IT IN
"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 the workbook
- Understand what is really happening — pause, gather the facts, before you respond
- Reset yourself first — your own calm before the conversation
- Have the first conversation — a short, warm way to open it
- Explain it — feelings, meanness, and where the behaviour leads
- Standing up to friends — it's okay not to go along
- The friendship audit — done together, side by side
- Repair, not performance — beyond a forced apology
- Teach the replacement skills — what to do instead
- Build the home structure — agreements, consequences, praise
- Work with the school — and know when to escalate
- Weekly check-in & four-week review — revisit and track progress
This is a workbook, not just something to read
Use it in the way that works best for you.
Print it
Download and print the pages, then write directly into the workbook.
Fill it in digitally
Choose the fillable version and type your responses in, then save your completed copy.
Use your own journal
Use the questions and prompts as a guide, and write your responses in your own journal.
Pause. Reflect. Write. Then decide what you want to do differently.
We recommend a quiet, uninterrupted moment — 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. The workbook also includes a four-week review and progress tracker, designed to be revisited.
One workbook, however you like to use it
Digital E-Workbook 01
Parenting Emotional Intelligence at Home
R135
22 pages. Type your answers straight into the PDF and save your progress, or print it and write by hand — the file does both, so there's nothing extra to choose.
Get the Workbook — R135How to use it
Open it on your laptop or phone and type your responses directly into the workbook — your answers save into the PDF, so you can close it, come back to it, and pick up where you left off. Or print the pages and write into them by hand, the way you would any workbook. Same 22 pages, same exercises, whichever way you choose.
If you think you might want a Workbook Debrief Session with a coach, working digitally is worth it: you can bring your completed, saved reflections straight into the conversation, rather than working from loose handwritten pages.
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: unpacking your responses, thinking through what you're observing, and finding a way forward.
Parent Coaching
Licensed Indigenously Parenting Coach™
R2,500
A guided debrief of your workbook reflections, one on one.
Founder Coaching
Nomveliso Mbanga
R4,250
Founder-level coaching and deeper strategic reflection.
Coaching sessions are booked per child, so that each child's particular circumstances can be given the appropriate attention. The coaching session is not included in the price of the workbook.
Start with one conversation
You don't need to have all the answers. Sometimes the first step is simply creating the space to stop, think, and understand.
One workbook · One child · One opportunity to pause and think differently.