Feelings
8 articles
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (US)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (UK)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
A Child's Emotional State After Daycare (Global)
A familiar parental experience: you arrive at pickup, the key person tells you about a perfect day full of paint and circle time and laughter, and wit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...