Parents with children 4-12 years old: Emotional awareness is a building block of a healthy emotional life. Build your child’s emotional awareness through this simple, fun activity

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More hope today…  kids and hope.  Helping kids know/identify and express their feelings.  This is something I do with my 4 yr old.  It really helps…  when he can identify and express what he is feeling we can enjoy what we are doing and avoid meltdowns (well most of the time).  Take a look below… let me know what you think.

What is Emotional Awareness:  it is the ability to identify and describe what you are feeling and to know what others are feeling.

Why is Emotional Awareness important:  it is a building block of a healthy emotional life. The more aware your child is of his feelings and the more comfortable he becomes with the full range of feelings that people experience, the easier it will be for him to connect with others. The ability to control one’s emotions when they are too strong and getting in the way of coping is improved by emotional awareness.

These activities can be done with all children (by using more complex emotions for older kids).  Check it out…  it is definitely worth a click!

 

My own emotional awareness and resiliency… life’s little ups and downs and it is not even 11 am

It is not even 11 AM and what a day already…  a day of life’s little ups and downs…

Things like we are doing a re-fi and the mortgage broker left a message saying we are set to close and the 15 day numbers look so good we can get another 1/4 of a point…  that is good, actually it is great!  YEAH!

But, when I talk to the mortguage broker, he wants to close on the day I planned to do something fun with my 4 yr old son (this is a special day for us, I am taking off work, we bought tickets for a kids show in NYC)…  this is not good.  So I explain the situation and we come up with a plan, so I can still have a fun day with my son…  this is good, well, it is GREAT!

Then, … well it goes on.   And I am reminded, that I have handled everything.  I was able to share my thoughts and feelings, we were able to make a plan so all is good.  I am feeling Resilient…  And I am laughing that all the things around Fishful Thinking are things I use in my everyday life…  pretty cool.  Hope you have a good day!

 

Parents with children 4-12 years old: Emotional awareness is a building block of a healthy emotional life. Build your child’s emotional awareness through this simple, fun activity

More hope today…  kids and hope.  Helping kids know/identify and express their feelings.  This is something I do with my 4 yr old.  It really helps…  when he can identify and express what he is feeling we can enjoy what we are doing and avoid meltdowns (well most of the time).  Take a look below… let me know what you think.

What is Emotional Awareness:  it is the ability to identify and describe what you are feeling and to know what others are feeling.

Why is Emotional Awareness important:  it is a building block of a healthy emotional life. The more aware your child is of his feelings and the more comfortable he becomes with the full range of feelings that people experience, the easier it will be for him to connect with others. The ability to control one’s emotions when they are too strong and getting in the way of coping is improved by emotional awareness.

These activities can be done with all children (by using more complex emotions for older kids).

How can I learn more:  Click HERE .