Six Ways to Respond to Your Kids’ Big Feelings
September 20th, 2024
Six Ways to Respond to Your Kids’ Big Feelings
When adults help children feel heard, it helps everyone feel less distressed and more calm.
By Jessica L. Borelli, Stacey N. Doan | March 17, 2022
As parents, one of our greatest motivations is to protect our children from pain and suffering—in essence, from negative emotions. Nonetheless, despite our best efforts, our children will be disappointed, feel fear and pain, and have tremendous loss and grief. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Experiencing emotions is at the heart of what it means to be alive, and emotions can provide us with information about ourselves and our environment. While we cannot strive to protect our children from difficult emotions, there are strategies we can use so that these emotions provide opportunities to learn and to feel connected to others.
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