Feelings Versus Actions
Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away
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Separate a feeling from an action and practise one safe pause.
Can discuss the supplied example in an accessible mode; adapt directions without supplying the target answer.
Check the learner can follow the model with support before moving on. Source prerequisite ordering is not learner mastery; return to prerequisite work when needed.
Use a puppet or imagined character. No forced body scan, eye closing, breathing exercise or personal disclosure. Open S first, G together, then T alone; put S and G away before T. Keys stay adult-only. No purchase or printing is required; an unavailable physical observation remains pending, not passed.
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What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away
Canonical evidence consists of broad research labels; none is invented as a citation or treated as attainment. Role-play cannot establish real-world regulation.
- blocked: emotion regulation development research
Source provides a research label, not a verified specific study or observable attainment clause.
- blocked: Effects of Age and Gender in Emotion Regulation (PMC 2020)
Source provides a research label, not a verified specific study or observable attainment clause.
- blocked: expressive control to emotion regulation (PMC)
Source provides a research label, not a verified specific study or observable attainment clause.
- partial: Does {{name}} understand that feeling angry, scared, or jealous doesn't mean they have to act on it immediately — that there's a gap between the feeling and what they choose to do next?
Canonical evidence consists of broad research labels; none is invented as a citation or treated as attainment. Role-play cannot establish real-world regulation.
Canonical evidence consists of broad research labels; none is invented as a citation or treated as attainment. Role-play cannot establish real-world regulation.
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Separate a feeling from an action and practise one safe pause.
Separate a feeling from an action and practise one safe pause.
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- emotion regulation development research
- Effects of Age and Gender in Emotion Regulation (PMC 2020)
- expressive control to emotion regulation (PMC)
“Does your child understand that feeling angry, scared, or jealous doesn't mean they have to act on it immediately — that there's a gap between the feeling and what they choose to do next?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Self-Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 6–8