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

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Some are easy to learn, like “happy,” “angry,” and “joyful,” while others are quite difficult, like “melancholy,” “zany,” and “queasy. But now might be a good time to remind you that staying super plugged in to the news can exacerbate this response (and a lot of other things on this list, at that), so maybe consider going easy on yourself and cutting back on your news consumption. You could also ask children to consider when they think they might have seen someone else experience any of the emotions and what they think triggered it for them. These feelings charts are designed to help you increase your emotional awareness and understand yourself better. To find out more about supporting students with SEMH needs, check out this blog and this teaching wiki.

It is important to understand that we are all dealing with this as a unit, but this unit is impacted in different ways,” says Roberts.

It would be really useful to know why: was it just not the right thing for you, or was there something you didn't like about it? Even if you are not sure exactly what’s behind your disgust, a therapist can help you work through the emotion and explore positive ways of coping with it. With everything going on, it might alarm you to wake up one day and realize you feel…nothing at all. 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. There’s no denying that the pandemic completely disrupted life as we know it, forcing a lot of people to miss out on experiences they’d been looking forward to for a long time.

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.Start by using these feeling charts to better understand what you’re feeling, then move on to why and how to cope. This way, kids are able to expand their vocabularies and describe their feelings in more ways than one.

If you find yourself suddenly consumed with thoughts and feelings about something from your past, you might feel caught off guard. If you are interested in further exploring emotions with your kids, you might enjoy playing this Emotions Board Game, or our Emotional Check In Resource Pack. Doing something to help others or give back to society can help you feel more connected with other people.There are two versions available—one for younger kids and one for older ones—and both are offered in colored and uncolored packages. I have been told children take it to bed and cuddle it, that they found their child using one of the strategies, that they more willingly declare their emotions and that they stare at the pictures for ages.