How Are You Feeling Today?: A Let's Talk picture book to help young children understand their emotions

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If enjoyment and its related feelings seem out of reach, try to take a look at how other emotions or feelings may be getting in the way, such as: It's not always easy to talk about how you're feeling: mental health and wellbeing are topics that can be awkward to talk about out loud for all kinds of reasons. Now that’s what I’m talking about. When I first started my publishing and consulting company in 2002, I got a part-time job as a valet, crashing (I mean parking) cars nights and weekends. Interestingly, the overnight bellman was a guy named Henry who said, “Everything is beautiful!” daily. He was also voted Employee of the Year five years in a row. Coincidence? Maybe. Better than your answer? Absolutely. What I like about How Are You Feeling Today? is that it doesn't just focus on negative emotions. Children can find positive emotions (like excitement) equally overwhelming. It's great not just for talking to children about emotions in general but for identifying their specific emotions that day and coming up with a plan for dealing with them.

Once you start accepting your emotions and understand them rather than suppressing your emotions you will be able to see yourself and what is your true wish or dreams. Consider feeling scared and what makes you feel scared. Ask which things are actually dangerous and why. Featuring a rain cloud template, with multiple raindrops for children to colour in depending on how they are feeling each day, your whole class will love this How Are You Feeling Today Rain Cloud Activity Poster. They can choose from the existing coloured raindrops such as yellow for happy, orange for calm, blue for lonely or green for worried, or they can create their own colours and feelings raindrops. This article was co-authored by Klare Heston, LCSW. Klare Heston is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker based in Cleveland, Ohio. With experience in academic counseling and clinical supervision, Klare received her Master of Social Work from the Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983. She also holds a 2-Year Post-Graduate Certificate from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, as well as certification in Family Therapy, Supervision, Mediation, and Trauma Recovery and Treatment (EMDR).Emotions can be hard for children to understand or distinguish between, but the colourful characters on this chart can serve as a visual aid for your child. They can look at the chart, see which character looks the most like how they feel at the moment, and use that information to explain their feelings. When children can label their emotions well, they become more capable of managing the way they communicate and react to people. Reach out for support. This is easier said than done when you’re at a low point. Try to remember the people in your life who care for you and likely want to help you. The pain of heartache does ease with time, even if you can’t imagine it at the moment. You typically experience disgust as a reaction to unpleasant or unwanted situations. Like anger, feelings of disgust can help protect you from things you want to avoid. Give a detailed answer when responding to a close friend, a family member, or your partner. These are likely individuals you are close with and trust on a personal level. Tell them how you are feeling in a more meaningful and detailed way.

During sessions, practitioners can utilise this poster to create a safe and interactive space where children and young people can identify and communicate their emotions. By inviting them to point out or select the face that represents how they feel, the poster encourages self-reflection and promotes emotional self-awareness. Focus on finding a solution. Anger is often difficult to deal with because it makes you feel helpless. Working to solve the problem that’s causing your anger can help relieve this frustration. You may not be able to fix every situation that makes you angry, but you can usually bring about some improvement. Ask other people involved what they think and work together. You can also try asking your loved ones for their input. Different perspectives can help you consider solutions you may not have seen yourself. The moment they heard our feelings spoken out, they were lost in thoughts. And overcoming her fear, a girl stood up and nervously spoke about her feelings. We continued for few more minutes listening to few of the girls answers. What was interesting in these girls was they were confused but still they intently listened to each word of ours and responded to the same actively either it maybe through facial expression or verbal. Terrible. Fine is a lie. Nobody is fine. Fine is an acronym for “Feelings I’m Not Expressing.” Don’t say it. Thanks for getting in touch and letting us know how much you liked this resource. You might also want to take a look at these:

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. How are you today?” is a question that people ask at the beginning of a conversation to help get the rhythm of a conversation going.

Develop coping skills for trying emotions by focusing on what you can control and finding healthy ways to express your feelings. Find other words that mean happy, angry, sad and scared, together. Decide which words sound like you’re experiencing the emotion strongly and which less so. Similarly, your past experiences might have trained you to act calm in crisis. “Some of my clients are actually feeling an unexpected sense of ‘calm’ amid the chaos, which can sometimes be the result of adverse childhood experiences where clients have become accustomed to unstable environments,” Siobhan D. Flowers, Ph.D., tells SELF. 4. You’re spiraling about what might happen.Understanding your emotions, their triggers, how they affect you, and how to manage them healthily and effectively are behaviors everyone should strive to improve.

This illustrated emotions chart can easily be used at home to help your child communicate any difficult feelings they may be experiencing, as well as express themselves in a way that is calm and constructive.My personal favorite. For years I’ve been answering the question, “So, Scott, how are you?” with this word. People notice it. People remember it. People ask follow-up questions about it. Because they’re curious. Works every time. Not to mention, the word perfect comes from the Latin perfectus, which means, “complete.” Which means it’s always the truth. Because all of us are always complete. Don’t forget that.