The impact of Emotional Education and how childhood shapes our adulthood life.
In this reflection, I share how emotional education in childhood becomes the foundation of self-worth, empathy, and conscious leadership and why nurturing awareness early can transform generations.
Ana Cristina Gordillo
11/11/2025
The truth is, I didn’t grow up learning about emotional intelligence or personal development, how to listen to my emotions, to understand what I was feeling, or to express myself without fear. I had to learn it later in adulthood through experience, through life challenges and through awakening.
I remember sitting at a Tony Robbins event when something inside of me clicked.In that moment, I realized that if I had learned all these tools earlier self-awareness, emotional regulation, communication, a growth mindset and presence (core elements of emotional intelligence for children and adults) my life would have been completely different and I thought to myself, “If I ever have children, I don’t want them to grow up without this.”
That was the beginning of everything... That thought became a seed and that seed became The Magic Box for Children, a movement to give children what some adults are still searching for, practical emotional education tools that nurture self-awareness, confidence and empathy from early childhood, tools to understand themselves, to trust their intuition, to believe in the capacities, to set boundaries without gilt and to lead their lives from a place of love instead of fear.
As adults, many of us are still trying to heal what began in childhood. We repeat generational patterns not because we want to because we don’t know how to change them, that’s why learning emotional regulation and emotional literacy from a young age can truly transform lives. I see it everywhere: in relationships that lack communication, in workplaces filled with pressure and disconnection, in adults who achieve so much and still feel not enough and all of it often comes from the same place a childhood where emotional education was missing.
When children don’t learn how to navigate emotions, they start to silence themselves. They learn to hide their sadness, to earn love through performance, or to believe that vulnerability is weakness. Those beliefs grow with us until we decide to unlearn them.
The power of teaching emotional education for kids, this is where transformation begins.
Research shows that teaching emotional intelligence in early childhood improves resilience, communication, and mental well-being and when a child learns to understand emotions early, they learn to understand themselves, they grow up knowing they are worthy, capable and enough not because of what they do, but because of who they are, they learn to turn challenges into lessons and fear into growth, they learn to speak with kindness, to listen with empathy and to lead by example from love.
That’s why emotional education matters, it’s about guiding and showing children how to be, about helping them build an inner world where they feel safe, seen and valued, to know their worth from early age instead of searching that when they become adults.
Because one day, these children will become the adults of tomorrow the leaders, parents, teachers and creators of the future and everything begins there, in the invisible world of emotions, in the moments when they learn that love, presence and awareness are the most powerful tools of all.
When we teach children emotional intelligence, we’re not just changing their childhood we’re changing humanity, we’re raising a generation that will know how to listen, how to connect, and how to lead consciously, because every time a child feels seen, an adult heals and every time an adult chooses awareness, a child grows free.
What would your life look like if, as a child, you had learned to trust yourself to believe in your voice, your leadership, and your ability to create without fear? How would your path have unfolded if no one had ever made you doubt your light? If someone had taught you that your emotions are simply messages guiding you back home to yourself? And now that you know this, what would it mean to be the one who teaches it to yourself, to your children, to the next generation?
That’s the essence of emotional education, creating a generation rooted in love, awareness and emotional intelligence, remember: It all starts with love and it starts with you!
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