5️⃣ tips to help your child learn to express their emotions #shorts

5️⃣ tips to help your child learn to express their emotions: 1️⃣ Use of Emotional Wheels:  Use emotional wheels to help children identify and label their feelings.  This tool can facilitate discussions about emotions by asking kids to describe how they're feeling and recognizing emotional cues in themselves and others.  This approach helps children become more aware of their emotions and the emotions of people around them 2️⃣ Expanding Emotional Vocabulary:  Getting specific about emotions allows children to seek appropriate help when needed.  By using tools like feelings charts or wheels placed where children can see them, parents can help increase their children's emotional vocabulary.  Simple questions about how they're feeling or how they think someone else is feeling can aid in this development. 3️⃣ Acknowledging and Validating Feelings:  Acknowledge your children's feelings as valid and help them understand that it's okay to experience a range of emotions.  This involves teaching children that sadness and fear are natural emotions that can be discussed openly 4️⃣ Modeling Emotional Expression:  Parents are encouraged to share their own feelings in age-appropriate ways to show children how to handle emotions healthily.  This modeling includes expressing negative emotions and coping with them constructively 5️⃣ Teaching Coping Strategies:  Introducing calming techniques and coping strategies for managing fear, anxiety, and other intense emotions.  Helping children learn how to express, label, and navigate their feelings can equip them with the tools needed to handle emotional situations more effectively  Want more in-depth tips, context-based examples, and a whole lot of other tools like the emotional wheels? 📕Pick up your copy of “How to Talk to Kids About Anything,”

from Dr. Robyn Silverman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJSSm95hyw