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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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 […]