EQ topics for ages 11–12
Emotional intelligence, taken as seriously as arithmetic: naming feelings, reading other people, handling frustration and pressure, friendship, kindness and repair after a fight.
The step up to secondary thinking — abstraction, formal terms and questions with more than one defensible answer.
20 topics · 120 hands-on stations · 1 free to try
Two Kinds of Self-Awareness
Psychologists split self-awareness into two halves, and being strong in one says almost nothing about the other. Flip every card.
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Knowing your own values, triggers, moods and patterns from the inside — what actually makes you tick, rather than what you assume.
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Knowing how you land on other people. Most of us overrate this badly, which is why honest feedback feels so surprising.
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A blind spot is a habit others notice constantly and you never see. Having them is not a character flaw — it is how brains work.
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There is a voice in your head describing your life as it happens. Noticing that it is a commentary, not the facts, is a genuine skill.
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Free printable worksheet
Ten questions from Knowing Yourself on one page, with an answer key at the bottom — a PDF you can print for homework, a car journey or a classroom. No account needed and nothing to sign up for.
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A few of the EQ topics at this age
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Knowing Yourself
FreeThe one person you can never take a break from is you
🔍 Two Kinds of Self-Awareness · 📰 Fact or Story? · ⚡ Spotting Your Triggers · 🧩 What Your Reactions Reveal · 📖 The Feedback · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Naming Complex Feelings
A bigger feelings vocabulary genuinely makes feelings easier to handle
🔬 Emotional Granularity · 🎯 The Precise Word · ⚖️ Feeling or Judgement? · 🔤 Find the Real Word · 📱 The New Phone · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Managing Strong Emotions
What is actually happening in your brain, and what actually works
🧠 The Amygdala Hijack · ⏱️ Ride the Ninety Seconds · 🧰 What Works and What Costs · 🎯 In the Moment · 📖 The Group Project Message · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Stress and Pressure
Some pressure sharpens you; the rest just wears you down
❤ What Stress Actually Is · 📈 The Pressure Curve · 🎛️ Inside or Outside Your Control · 🚦 Signals and Responses · 📖 Three Things at Once · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Anxiety and Overthinking
Your brain predicting disaster is a feature, not a fault — but it needs supervising
🔮 The Prediction Machine · 🔁 Looping or Solving? · 🧀 Thinking Traps · 🛡️ Traps and Counters · 📖 The Midnight Replay · 🎯 Practice Zone
…and 15 more EQ topics for ages 11–12 inside the app, each one a full trail of hands-on stations. Create a free account to explore them.
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