If you are interested in further exploring emotions with your kids, you might enjoy playing this Emotions Board Game, using these Emotion Fans or exploring these classroom mental health activities and simple printable emotion cards. If you are, however, looking for words and picture association these Communication Cards - Food can come in really handy! Where can I find more resources like this? Our emotions are biological states associated with our nervous system. These states are usually related to our thoughts and feelings and are usually either pleasant or unpleasant. The “Feelings Faces: How Do You Feel Today?” poster is an engaging and versatile resource designed to support 1:1 direct work with children and young people. This poster showcases a wide range of over 60 faces depicting diverse emotions, providing a valuable visual tool for exploring and expressing feelings. Same goes for important career events, proms, vacations, anniversaries, or anything that the new coronavirus has demolished in its path. A lot of people feel guilty for caring when these things can seem small in comparison to many other consequences of COVID-19, but don’t beat yourself up. It’s totally natural to be sad, angry, annoyed, and disappointed, no matter what else is going on. 7. You’re yo-yoing between hopefulness and hopelessness. You can also use these lovely feelings word mats to display a variety of synonyms for adjectives expressing feelings. Perfect as a learning aid to independent writing and encouraging children to experiment with higher-level vocabulary. A must for literacy displays or a working wall. There are twelve different posters, each displaying synonyms for a range of adjectives to do with our feelings: happy, sad, scared, angry, excited, worried, frightened, upset, calm, hopeful, proud, and loving. This is great for helping pupils to develop their vocabulary.

It’s natural for the things you’re grateful for—such as financial stability, the company of family or partners during isolation, or good health that makes you less at risk for serious complications—to be shadowed by an awareness that not everyone is in a similar position. Don’t beat yourself up for what you do have, and maybe ask yourself if you’re in a position to help others (which might have the added bonus of making you feel better too). I counsel people to cope within their reality and context while also helping them to think of ways they can be of service to others,” says Horsham-Brathwaite. “If they are open to doing so, that has meant giving financially, volunteering, praying for themselves and others, and of course managing their anxiety to support their well-being and allow them to be a source of emotional support to others.” 11. You’re deep in some existential regret.

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Hence we ended session by asking them to speak about what they learnt from this session and what are the changes that they are going to do from that day on…. Consider other emotions not included in the book and come up with ideas of what you could do when you felt those. e.g. lonely, disappointed, grateful.

Make a guess of which emotion you might feel the most often (this can give interesting insights in itself) and then keep a tally (as best as you can) of which of the twelve emotions you have felt each day, for a week and compare with your prediction and discuss. This can help children really focus inwardly on their emotions. While the terms are frequently used interchangeably and certainly are related, feelings and emotions are not the same things. People expect you to be mature and considerate because you are a grown-up. They put pressure on you because they assume that you already know how to identify your emotions and make wise decisions.With everything going on, it might alarm you to wake up one day and realize you feel…nothing at all. That’s to be expected too. Even in the most chaotic of times, it’s impossible to be on emotional high alert 24/7. “I think of it in terms of adrenaline,” says Howes. “You can only have adrenaline coursing through your veins for so long until the body has to reset and simmer down.” Same goes for emotions, especially the longer this goes on. 17. You’re feeling something else entirely. Feeling charts are essential tools for fostering emotional intelligence and enhancing self-awareness. By articulating and identifying emotions, these charts allow you to better understand their internal states, leading to improved communication and decision-making. Express your anger constructively. You might avoid talking about your anger to help prevent conflict. Internalizing can seem like a safe strategy, but your anger can fester, and you may end up holding a grudge. This can affect your interpersonal relationships as well as your emotional well-being. Instead, take time to cool off if you need it, and then try expressing your feelings calmly and respectfully. Emotions are your body’s physical response to something. They activate your thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs about the situation and influence how you perceive and interpret it. Your brain then assigns meaning to those emotions to create your feelings. Encouraging children to talk about their emotions helps children understand that their feelings are important and that you care how they are doing. Teaching children how to communicate their emotions is such an important life skill so they can express themselves to others and get extra help if they need it.

Learning about emotions helps learners build their empathy skills towards others. It's really important that they can recognise different emotions within themselves and others. Making the learning fun by including drawing challenges where learners can guess the emotion, and acting challenges, is a great way to increase their awareness of what different emotions can look like. There are a lot of ways to deal with anger, many of which can cause problems for you and those around you.

Beauty lies in their personality which is more important than outer appearance. And the ones who didn’t understand or agree with others opinion.. questioned, as they were open to understanding the contrary argument.

So with this book in mind, what could parents/carers teachers do to enhance its use? Here are a few ideas: Start by brainstorming a list of emotions that you frequently experience. Consider broad feelings like happiness, anger, or fear but also more nuanced feelings like jealousy, nostalgia, or tranquility. Once you’ve compiled your feeling list, decide on a chart style that suits your needs – this could be a wheel chart, a grid chart, or even a simple list.

4. You’re spiraling about what might happen.

I think the beauty of the book is its simplicity but I think its worth is something different. I have grown to realise that it’s not necessarily the content of the book that is its main plus – no – it’s simply that children are considering and focusing on what they might be feeling more than they might have done, as a result of my book! We are generally not encouraged to even consider emotions but this book is a brilliant start on a journey to improve emotional intelligence. It also helps children consider that there might be things they can do to help them manage their emotions of course. Cowen AS, et al. (2017). Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients.