Naming Your Feelings
Notice what you are feeling and put a name to it — being able to label an emotion is the first step to understanding and managing it
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When your child seems upset, excited, or frustrated, can they stop and tell you what emotion they're feeling — even if they can't fully explain why?
Notice what you are feeling and put a name to it — being able to label an emotion is the first step to understanding and managing it
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- emotional literacy research
- Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children (HeadStart.gov)
- emotion vocabulary development 4-11 years (PMC)
“When your child seems upset, excited, or frustrated, can they stop and tell you what emotion they're feeling — even if they can't fully explain why?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Self-Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 5–6