We've built an increasingly granular emotional vocabulary for children. These days, there are feelings charts in classrooms, books about managing big emotions, and entire pedagogies built around ...

Parenting can be hard and can feel especially overwhelming when children have strong emotions, such as anger, frustration or excitement, that they are not always able to regulate on their own.

When kids feel bombarded by difficult emotions, they may feel a sense of helplessness, as if there is nothing they can do to pull themselves out of the storm. As parents, we know effective strategies ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...

In a recent consult, the parents of a seven-year-old, who by nature is a very big reactor, shared that after a lot of hard work managing their own emotions and being less reactive to him when he is ...

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Machaela offers a gentle, God-centered guide to emotional wellness for young readers. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, January 12 ...

Since the last Bluey episode (for now at least) aired, most families with young kids have probably watched the Bluey canon at ...

I was a fully grown adult before I learned that identifying emotions is the first step to dealing with them. Now I keep a feelings wheel handy at all times, just in case anyone needs help ...

But I've started paying closer attention to the things I said and say when my kids are upset, and I've realized that a lot of the phrases I reach for—the ones I heard growing up, the ones that feel ...

Psychologist and parenting expert Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore shares her latest book, Growing Feelings: A Kids’ Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends and Other Kids. The best-selling author’s ...

It is commonplace in philosophy and psychology to divide emotions into two groups: basic and complex emotions. Complex emotions, such as grief, regret, and jealousy, have highly variable appearances ...