[Kimberley Armbruster]

Talking about feelings, reading books about feeling and doing activities in class about feelings is very important. Children need to be heard and to feel that they can express their feelings.

[Trainer]

Great points, Kimberley! Encouraging expression through discussion, literature, and activities fosters emotional awareness and regulation in children.

[Lucas]

Teaching kids about identifying emotions and using regulation strategies while they are well regulated helps set the stage for them to learn to use these skills while they are disregulated. Having visual supports and manipulatives can help children learn and remember these important skills.

[Trainer]

Great insights, Lucas! Visual supports and manipulatives are excellent tools for reinforcing emotional recognition and regulation strategies.

[Jennilee]

Some ways are using a feeling chart to help children identify emotions and doing a “body check”, let them know how you know by saying it out loud observing their body language and exercise plus daily breathing (can role play like blowing out a candle).

[Trainer]

Great suggestions, Jennilee! Utilizing feeling charts and body checks are effective strategies for emotional recognition and regulation.

[Cassandra Murdick]

The best way to help children recognize their emotions and control their responses is to let them communicate their emotions and teach them possible better responses to how they are feeling.

[Audra]

Helping children to name feelings and reflect on how each feeling makes their body feel, identifying posture during individual feelings and going through a whole emotional cycle from arousal to calm.

[Trainer]

Great insights, Audra! Naming feelings and connecting them to bodily sensations is vital for emotional awareness and regulation.

[JB]

Helping children trust their bodies by letting them make their own decisions as far as safety permits is a good starting point. Describing how a body is communicating feelings (clenched fists; open arms; wiggling) helps children identify the emotions they are experiencing.

[Serafima]

Help children recognize emotions by naming their feelings and talking about them. Teach calming strategies like deep breathing, quiet time, or counting to ten.

[Trainer]

Great suggestions, Serafima! Naming feelings and teaching calming strategies are essential for emotional awareness and self-regulation in children.

[Luz Silva]

I help children recognize and manage their emotions by naming them, validating them, modeling self-control, teaching calming strategies, using books or games, and praising their efforts.

[Trainer]

Great approach, Luz! Naming emotions and using books are effective strategies for fostering emotional awareness and self-regulation. Keep it up!

[Mulkey Hussein]

Some of the best ways to help children recognize their emotions and control their responses are teaching them feeling words, modeling calm behavior, and practicing self-calming when they’re not upset. Using tools like feeling charts, mirrors, or emotions books can help them name what they’re feeling.

[Trainer]

Great insights, Mulkey! Teaching feeling words and using tools like feeling charts are effective strategies for emotional recognition.

[Grace Van Blaricom]

I like having posters around the room with different emotions. I have the student point to which poster they are feeling and what I need to do to help.

[Jenny Ulvestad]

I think practicing emotions recognition when children are calm is a helpful way to teach, as children cannot learn when they are emotionally upset. We use songs like “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and act out different feelings with our face and body language. We use puppets to show how different interactions with peers and teachers make us feel. We read books and talk about the conflicts in the story and notice how the characters are feeling.

[zain alzeir]

I can help children recognize and manage emotions by teaching simple feeling words, modeling calm behavior, using emotion charts, and giving them tools like deep breaths or a quiet space.

[Trainer]

Great strategies, Zain! Teaching feeling words and modeling calm behavior are essential for children’s emotional development. Keep up the good work!

[Remi]

It is helpful to teach children about their emotions and emotional regulation during times that they are regulated. Children can practice identifying feelings from visuals with feelings faces and labeling emotions. Pointing out how the child may be feeling based on their body language can also be helpful. Practicing deep breathing and different ways to take a break is also important.

[Trainer]

Great insights, Remi! Teaching emotional awareness and regulation through visuals and body language fosters essential coping skills in children.

[Caitlin Bynum]

Co-regulation. Modeling how you want a child to respond when they are feeling angry or tense. Teach them the steps to self-calm and recognize where there emotions are felt on their body. Describing this to the child may help them to learn how to recognize it.

[Trainer]

Great insights, Caitlin! Co-regulation and modeling are essential for teaching children emotional recognition and self-calming strategies.

[Karla Guizar]

By letting them explain in their words why they are feeling the way they are feeling and what led to that. Then look for a solution together.

[Trainer]

Great point, Karla! Encouraging open communication fosters emotional awareness and collaborative problem-solving in children.