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

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Expose yourself slowly. Some things may turn your stomach no matter what. Maybe you can’t stand any type of creepy-crawly creature but wish you could try gardening. To get over your disgust for worms, you might start by reading about them and looking at pictures of them. If you worry about them getting on your hands, you could try wearing gardening gloves. If you don’t like watching them move, you could try watching short video clips about worms to get used to them before seeing them in real life. Organize your emotions on the chart, with similar feelings grouped together. Be sure to leave space for adding more emotions as your self-awareness grows. What Are the 12 Human Emotions? Anger usually happens when you experience some type of injustice. This experience can make you feel threatened, trapped, and unable to defend yourself. Hope 4 Hurting Kids is a movement that focuses on helping children who are dealing with or have dealt with traumatic experiences. Their goal is to provide useful information and beneficial resources to people who deal with such children, such as educators, therapists, etc.

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. For example, you may respond, “Actually, I’ve been feeling a little down lately. I think I might be struggling with stress and anxiety” if you have not been feeling well or like yourself. I’ve dubbed this process “Making the Mundane Memorable,” and you’re presented with myriad opportunities to do so throughout your job search. Especially when interviewers, strangers and colleagues constantly ask you, “So, how are you today?” Distract yourself from your fear. Sometimes fear can become so overwhelming that it’s hard to think about anything else. But ruminating, or letting the same thoughts play out over and over again, can have a negative impact on your emotional state. It can also make fear worse. If you feel yourself fixating on a worry or source of stress, try to do something distracting. Listen to an audiobook or podcast, cook with a new recipe, or go for a walk or jog with energizing music. 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.When you extend your hand to greet your interviewer, she predictably asks, “So, how are you today?” Respond with “Fine, thanks” or “I’m good, thanks." You can use these responses if you are speaking to someone in a social situation you do not know well, such as an acquaintance at a party or someone you have just met while out and about. [1] X Research source 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). Or, will you respond like the other 37 (equally qualified) candidates she’s already met this week by predictably saying, “Fine”? 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.

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. Understanding your emotions, their triggers, how they affect you, and how to manage them healthily and effectively are behaviors everyone should strive to improve. Emotions can be complicated. Some might feel intense, while others seem mild in comparison. You might feel conflicting emotions at any given time. Emotions can be hard for children to understand or distinguish between, but the colourful characters on this display poster can serve as a visual aid for your child. They can look at the How Are You Feeling Today? Poster, see which character looks the most like how they feel at the moment, and use that information to explain their feelings. None of these examples hit home? No problem. Make a list of 10 unique, memorable and unexpected answers to the boring question, “So, how are you today?” Experiment with words and expressions that are consistent with your personal brand and philosophy. Try a new one each day. Have some fun with it. You’ve got nothing to lose.

Encourage children to talk about how they feel each day with this lovely How Are You Feeling Today? Poster that asks them how they feel and gives them several examples of adorable characters representing various emotions. Wrap up your response with “Thanks for asking.” Let the person know you appreciate their question and their willingness to listen to your long answer. This is a good way to end your response on a positive note, even if your response was about how you are feeling negative or not well. 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. Consider anything you have been jealous or envious about. Talk about this and be curious about why you felt this. Does it highlight something you want to try and improve or try or need to think differently about?

So, if you want to respond positively and honestly to ‘How are you feeling?’ question, here are some example answers for you. 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. Although seemingly simple, feelings charts are excellent tools that allow you to sort through your feelings and emotions. They are helpful at all ages and can be used in many different ways. But it is also a genuine expression from someone who thinks of you and maybe worries about your situation.Sometimes, with their presence alone, you feel better and forget what you’re going through. 8. “I think if one more person asks me this, let me tell you, I may cry.” We hope that the printable feelings charts we shared above can help you and your children learn the different emotions. We also hope that your kids will grow to be more communicative, compassionate, and kind-hearted through thanks to these charts. You can print and plaster them on your wall, or you can keep them on your laptop for counseling purposes. 5. Feeling Words for Kids While many know that they are needed as health care workers and want to serve, they may also feel anger [because] they do not have the proper equipment to safely do their job or resources for their clients,” Chante' Gamby, L.C.S.W., tells SELF. 3. You’re…surprisingly calm.

Based on your real condition and your connection with someone, you can answer to ‘How are you feeling today?’ in different ways. 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? If you experience an incident recently, feeling unwell or on bed rest, everyone starts asking you ‘How are you feeling now (or today)?’. Notice when and where the person asks “How are you?” If the person asks you at work at the coffee machine, they may expect a brief, polite answer that is appropriate for an office setting. If the person asks you over drinks or dinner after work or school, you may give them a more detailed, personal answer. 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.

Either way, some encounter that otherwise wouldn’t have existed did occur, all because of approachability. The last part of the session dealt with differentiating good touch and bad touch along with identifying support systems (Combined coping up skills ). We love this emotions chart from Your Dictionary. It doesn’t just show the common emotions, it also provides a list of synonyms for each. This way, kids are able to expand their vocabularies and describe their feelings in more ways than one. Disgust can happen as a natural response to something you dislike. In some situations, you might want to work through or overcome your disgust. These strategies can help: