Play
How Play Teaches Emotional Regulation
Play is where children first learn to manage their emotions. When a child plays out a scary situation with toys, they're practicing how to handle fear...
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Parenting
How to Talk to Children About Feelings Safely
Your toddler is crying and you say "You're okay, don't cry" or "Stop being sad." Your preschooler is angry and you say "Calm down" or dismiss it as ov...
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Parenting
Teaching Children to Recognize Their Own Emotions
A preschooler melts down and you ask "What are you feeling?" They have no idea. They're just in the feeling without any awareness of what it is. Teach...
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Emotions
What Emotional Coaching Means in a Family Setting
John Gottman's research on emotion coaching identified one of the most consequential parenting approaches of the modern era — and it involves no speci...
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Parenting
Emotion Coaching: Helping Children Understand Their Feelings
The instinct when a child is distressed or angry is often either to fix the problem that caused the feeling or to shut the feeling down. "You're fine....
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Emotions
Anger in Children: Why It Happens and How to Help Them Manage It
Anger in children tends to make adults uncomfortable in ways that other emotions do not. A sad child invites comfort; an angry child invites managemen...
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