How to support your children emotionally

10 Ways to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children

It's important to help your child express and handle their emotions. Read five tips from early education expert, Lynn Louise Wonders, on ways to help your child their feelings.

Are you looking for tips on how to raise an emotionally secure child? These are 7 signs that you are on the right path!

Frustrated navigating the intense emotion or meltdowns of your highly sensitive child? You're not alone! Here's some steps to lead you through the process. Whether you are dealing with intense emotion, highly sensitive traits, or challenging behaviors...you need some practical tools, parenting tips or strategies to know how to handle these parenting challenges. Chances are, your child's big emotions are escalating and need support! I'm a parenting coach who does this! Here's an article to…

Some kids are just harder to raise than others. One challenge is wondering how to connect with a difficult child. It might feel difficult because we have a strong-willed child or one that has different interests or personality from us, but we still want to have a strong parent-child relationship. Click through for 10 ways to bond with a difficult child and ideas for how to connect with a child that’s very different than you. #strongwilledchild #connectwithdifficultchild

Children's social and emotional development plays a critical role in their success in later life. This expert identified checklist of emotional needs by age will help parents to support their child's social development from baby to teenager. #emotionalneedsofchildren #emotionaldevelopment #socialemotionaldevelopment #emotionalintelligence #socialskills #socialemotionallearning

When you and your child are dealing with big emotions, co-regulation can help. Here are some therapist-approved strategies to help you and your kid co-regulate and connect on a deeper level.

Kids who know how to regulate their feelings can manage their behavior and keep negative thoughts at bay. But, children aren’t born with an understanding of their emotions and they don’t inherently know how to express their feelings in socially appropriate ways. As parents, it is down to us to teach them to manage uncomfortable feelings. How are you teaching your child to manage uncomfortable feelings? #selfregulation #resilience

Emotional intelligence is defined as “the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships with good judgement & empathy”. Previously thought of as a ‘soft skill’ & unimportant, it is clear that many of us now know just how important it is. The research shows that your level of emotional intelligence is the …

Many children grew up with parents who could not provide the level of emotional support that the child needed. This gap has long-standing impacts on the child. Addressing the past can help, especially for adult children who become caregivers. In this post, we highlight a series of books that teach adult children how to tackle their past well. #caregivers #caregiving #emotions #self-help #childhood

How to help children to identify their emotions?

Our children don’t learn emotional regulation from what we say—they learn from how we live. They absorb our energy, our responses, our tone. They mirror our stress or peace. If we want them to be emotionally resilient, we must do the inner work ourselves. Healing isn’t always easy, but it creates the safest space for our kids to grow. What’s one thing you’re working on emotionally for your child’s sake? Let’s support each other on this journey. #EmotionalIntelligence #ParentingWithPresence…

Tips for helping kids deal with big emotions, tantrums and emotional outbursts. Positive parenting tips for dealing with emotions. #tantrums #bigemotions #positiveparenting

Children can have big feelings, but not yet know how to handle or express them. Instead of dismissing and brushing off their feelings, we can help by empathizing them. When you connect with your child during their big emotions, you help them to become more self-aware, understand their own feelings and how emotions impact their choices. It can also give them valuable practice in responsible decision-making!

When kids are upset, we often mirror their frustration or try to solve their problems. Neither of these help children grown and learn. Be your child's emotion coach by following this 5 step process. Teach your kids how to tackle their own obstacles and grow into resilient adults. These positive parenting tips and social emotional learning activities are great for toddlers, teens, and any age in between!

Brittany Bacharach✨activity kits and learning ideas for kids on Instagram: "❤️EMPATHY❤️ ⠀ Did you know that you can “teach” empathy?! Parents and teachers actually play a big role in helping kids develop into more empathetic people. ⠀ Empathetic children are more tolerant, accepting and kind. Did you know that children who demonstrate empathy are less likely to bully others? Empathetic adults are happier, more successful, and understand others better. ⠀ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆? ⠀ The…

At a loss when your child shows no remorse for his or her behavior? Learn 6 effective questions to build empathy when your child appears to show no emotion.

Understanding the emotional needs of a child: a journey of empathy, patience, and unconditional love. 💖

It can be hard for us as parents to see our children going through difficult times. You do not quite know what’s at the root of the struggle, but you do know that you want to do whatever you can to help. Here are some ways you can do, to begin to make things better for your child in ways that build resilience and teach them that struggle is normal. #positiveparenting