Despite popular belief, emotionally intelligent kids are not immune to anxiety, anger, or other big emotions. When those feelings show up, they can arrive with surprising intensity—sometimes leaving both children and parents unsure of what to do next. I know this both professionally and personally. As a parent of three and someone who has spent […]
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Learning to Respond, Not React, to Your Child’s Anxiety
All children experience anxiety but how much of that anxiety is normal? It can be perplexing when your child has anxiety, especially because determining the source of that anxiety can leave you stressed and baffled. Moreover, anxiety manifests in the body in many different ways. While some children can become hypersensitive and jittery, others can […]
9 Age-appropriate Resources to Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety
This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read the full disclosure. Helping children manage their anxiety can be an overwhelming experience for many parents. Fortunately, there are resources to help. This article explores the resources that can help your child learn to manage his or her anxiety in appropriate ways. 1) The Emotions Kit […]
Providing an Appropriate Framework to Help Kids Manage Emotions
Researchers define emotion regulation as the ability to exert some form of control over our emotions. According to the emotion regulation researcher James Gross, emotion regulation refers to our ability to choose our emotions, when we have them, how we experience them and how we feel them. Much of the available emotion regulation research suggests […]
Calming Anger and Anxiety by Teaching Your Kid to Breathe
Everyone now knows that teaching kids to identify their emotions and learn to express them appropriately gives kids important tools to help them communicate more effectively. Solid evidence suggests that children who have learned to manage their emotions appropriately are more accountable for their actions (reactions) and are also more likely to be happier and […]