How do we teach kids about emotions and feelings?
Openly, honestly, and using terminology that we can incorporate into our everyday conversations with our kids.
This book is a fabulous educational resource that uses colors and the emotional "up and downs" in every day to talk about how to understand and identify emotions - and why that's so important.
Identifying emotions and where they're felt in the body is a vital skill for kids and adults alike and is the first step toward emotional regulation.
This is important book is the first in Mighty + Bright's highly anticipated "Emotions" series, and introduces the concept of emotional regulation. It is part of Mighty + Bright's Kids' Mental Health at Home Program.
This book explains the emotional experience in an easy-to-understand way and incorporates scientific findings such as "Name it to Tame it," the Window of Tolerance (developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD, co-author of "The Whole Brain Child"), and the Zones of Regulation, an educational method used in many schools.
This book covers:
The role our bodies and brains play in emotion;
The purpose of emotion in our lives, and the concept of high energy emotions (like anger or anxiety) and low energy emotions (like sadness or depression);
The desire for unpleasant emotions to go away, and why they're helpful;
Why emotions happen, including how our thoughts can cause them;
The benefit of naming our emotions;
How to begin understanding our own emotional experience;
Common worries about BIG emotions and how to safely cope with them;
Different people's different reactions to the same experience;
An opening to discuss anxiety and depression with kids;
The idea that no day is all "good" or all "bad."