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Emotional regulation
Your kid is learning to notice a feeling, ride it out and come back from it. That takes years, and it looks uneven along the way. This collection helps you see what’s happening and what helps.
The four articles
- 1How Kids Feel Emotions in Their BodiesInteroception, emotion and what kids notice first
- How body signals and emotions connect
- Why naming a feeling takes two skills
- Hunger, tiredness and other body states that look like emotions
- 2How Kids Learn to Manage Big FeelingsHow emotional regulation develops, and why it looks uneven
- Why managing feelings takes years
- Why regulation can look uneven
- What progress in emotional regulation tends to look like
- 3How Movement Helps Kids Calm DownThe body’s role in emotional regulation
- Kinds of body-based support
- Why the same strategy works some days and not others
- What to say while your kid’s body settles
- 4How to Find What Helps Your Kid Calm DownBuilding your family’s emotional regulation toolkit
- What a regulation toolkit is
- Why a tool stops working
- What a family toolkit can look like at different ages