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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

The instinct to soothe a crying child by saying "you're okay" is so deeply wired that it takes deliberate work to override. The reason to override it...

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Parenting

Teaching Children to Recognize Their Own Emotions

Your 4-year-old is on the floor screaming about a sock. You ask what they're feeling and they look at you like you've asked them to do calculus. They...

5 min read

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...

3 min read

Parenting

Emotion Coaching: Helping Children Understand Their Feelings

The instinct when a child is distressed or angry is often to fix the problem quickly or shut the feeling down. "You're fine." "Stop crying." "Don't be...

5 min read

Emotions

Anger in Children: Why It Happens and How to Help Them Manage It

Anger in children makes adults uncomfortable in ways that other emotions do not. A sad child invites comfort; an angry child invites correction or aut...

6 min read