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Feelings Chart for Kids

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Feelings Chart for Kids

Kids can have some big feelings. And sometimes, they don’t know how to express those feelings in a healthy way, or in a way that they can be heard. Using a chart like this feelings chart for kids can be a good way to help them recognize, name, understand and express their feelings in a good way, rather than being destructive.

There’s nothing wrong with having feelings. It’s just how you express those feelings that can be destructive and unhealthy. We need to teach our kids how to recognize and name their emotions, and to understand what and why they feel the way they feel. And then we can show them how to express their feelings in a healthy way. Helping kids manage their emotional health is part of helping them grow up healthy.

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Use this simple feelings chart for kids to help your kids learn about emotions. When kids can recognize and name their feelings, they can deal with them.

Recommended Books About Emotions

One of the best ways to teach kids about their emotions is to start with a story. Stories can connect with kids in a visual way that helps them see emotions and learn to name them. Here are a few of our favorite stories about emotions for young children. What would you add to this list?

The Color Monster: A Story About EmotionsThe Color Monster: A Story About EmotionsThe Color Monster: A Story About EmotionsWhen I am Angry: Kids Books about Anger, ages 3 5, children's books (Self-Regulation Skills)When I am Angry: Kids Books about Anger, ages 3 5, children’s books (Self-Regulation Skills)When I am Angry: Kids Books about Anger, ages 3 5, children's books (Self-Regulation Skills)The Feelings BookThe Feelings BookThe Feelings BookThe Angry Dragon: (anger management, ages 3 5, picture, preschool, kids books) (Emotions & Feelings)The Angry Dragon: (anger management, ages 3 5, picture, preschool, kids books) (Emotions & Feelings)The Angry Dragon: (anger management, ages 3 5, picture, preschool, kids books) (Emotions & Feelings)How I Feel: Emotions & Feelings Books For Kids, Children Ages 4 6, Preschool, Activity PagesHow I Feel: Emotions & Feelings Books For Kids, Children Ages 4 6, Preschool, Activity PagesHow I Feel: Emotions & Feelings Books For Kids, Children Ages 4 6, Preschool, Activity PagesMy Whirling Twirling MotorMy Whirling Twirling MotorMy Whirling Twirling Motor

 

The first step to managing emotional health is to help kids recognize what they’re feeling. Give your kids the names of their feelings, and that will help them use words rather than their hands or bodies to express how they feel. Start young, with simpler categories such as happy, sad, mad, and as your kids get older, give them more complex names, such as disappointed, frustrated or delighted.

We tend to focus on the negative feelings, but don’t forget to name the positive feelings too. Give your kids the names for the satisfaction of a job well done, or the pride in achievement, or the delight of a surprise gift.

Use this simple feelings chart for kids to help your kids learn about emotions. When kids can recognize and name their feelings, they can deal with them.

How to teach your kids about feelings

A great way to teach about feelings is to help your kids recognize the emotions of others. You could play a silly-face game, where you take turns making faces to express various emotions and try to guess what the other is pretending to feel. Point out what emotion people’s faces show when reading stories or watching a show with your kids.

Take every opportunity to give your kids the words for their feelings. When they get upset, you could say, “You seem very frustrated by this. Can I help?” or “I see that you’re angry.

Do you need some time to calm down?” And when they are jumping or laughing, say “I love how excited you are about this,” or “You look like you’re really enjoying that story.”

A simple way to start is to use this feelings chart. Every morning, ask your child how they’re feeling, and mark it on the chart. Then you can talk about why they’re feeling that way, or what might make them feeling differently.

The benefits of teaching kids about feelings

Once kids can recognize and name their feelings, it’s a lot easier to help them deal with those feelings and share how their feeling in a productive way. Kids who can name their feelings and have the words to express them are more likely to use their words and less likely to tantrum or act out.

Teaching our kids about their feelings is part of our job as parents. So grab this simple tool to help make your job easier.

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