Good parents teach their kids how to identify their emotions.
GREAT parents teach their kids how to control them!
Over the past few years, there’s been a huge and welcome push to help children name their emotions.
You can find tons of books about feelings, in any playground you’ll hear parents saying things like, “I can see you’re feeling angry”, and nurseries and schools are increasingly getting on board too. It’s brilliant! And it’s working. More kids than ever can tell you exactly how they feel.
But I think we’ve collectively stopped at step 1: identifying the feeling.
Step 2 gets way less airtime. Teaching kids what to actually DO with those big feelings once they’ve named them, is also really important!
What that looks like changes massively depending on the age of your child. A three-year-old having a meltdown in Tesco needs a completely different approach to a ten-year-old befuddled by friendship drama.
I made an infographic breaking it down.
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