“Feelings…nothing more than feelings…” Sounds so soothing, doesn’t it? Except feelings can get pretty big and even scary when they’re radiating from small children. Who hasn’t been blown away by the ...
Parenting isn't just about navigating your children's emotional ups and downs. We also need to work with our own big feelings ...
Teaching your child about four foundational emotions—anger, sadness, fear, and jealousy—can help them build a lifelong emotional vocabulary. Naming and normalizing feelings gives kids the language ...
As a licensed professional counselor and play therapist working with children ages 3-10, my work focuses on supporting ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Children and teens can express and manage their emotions in a healthy way, if taught emotional regulation -- according to health experts. "It's something that they need to be ...
Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...
As Shirley Oldale tucked her 3-year-old son into bed, he said, "I am sad because I wanted to play, and I don't want to go to bed."Oldale, a mother in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, has been teaching ...
You might think of LEGO Duplo sets as great for developing kids’ fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, but the Big Emotions line encourages social and emotional learning, too. These sets ...