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

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There are a lot of ways to deal with anger, many of which can cause problems for you and those around you. To someone you can be honest, you share how you genuinely feel. 11. “Today, I’m feeling so blessed.” I know this because I’ve been wearing a nametag 24/7 for 3,237 consecutive days. And strangers break the ice with me every day because of it. Some say hi, some introduce themselves, and some stop me in the middle of the aisle at Wal-Mart and ask me if I can tell them where to find the lime-green thongs they saw on sale in this week’s ad. The moment they heard our feelings spoken out, they were lost in thoughts. And overcoming her fear, a girl stood up and nervously spoke about her feelings. We continued for few more minutes listening to few of the girls answers. What was interesting in these girls was they were confused but still they intently listened to each word of ours and responded to the same actively either it maybe through facial expression or verbal. Fear is a totally normal emotion — and one that likely kept your ancestors from being eaten alive. There are things you can do to manage this feeling:

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. 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. “Remember that the impact this has on you is still valid and real. How you choose to spend this time is up to you and cannot be compared to how others are spending this time. May we remember to embrace our own feelings and struggles and show compassion for the feelings and struggles of others.”

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. “Clients are mourning their important events such as birthdays, upcoming retirement, canceled wedding plans, and their children’s graduation,” says Erinna. Learning about emotions helps learners build their empathy skills towards others. It's really important that they can recognise different emotions within themselves and others. 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. Healthline has strict sourcing guidelines and relies on peer-reviewed studies, academic research institutions, and medical associations. We avoid using tertiary references. You can learn more about how we ensure our content is accurate and current by reading our editorial policy. Using this chart as a visual and supportive aid, you can teach your children how to express their emotions in calm and constructive ways. This chart has lots of lovely illustrations so children can easily point out the picture they feel like today, which makes the challenge of describing emotions much less scary.

A large-scale crisis like this naturally brings to the forefront some larger questions that might have you thinking about your past choices, experiences, and values. “[Some people] are examining how they may have ‘wasted’ their time suffering or ruminating over things that now have little value,” says Golden. That said, Golden is also seeing this have a positive side effect: “They are beginning to see new meaning in relationship bonds, social connection, family, and health,” she says. 12. You’re grieving. It's not always easy to talk about how you're feeling: mental health and wellbeing are topics that can be awkward to talk about out loud for all kinds of reasons. 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: Say “Not great” or “I think I’m coming down with something” if you are feeling ill. This response will allow you to be honest and let the person know you are not feeling well. They may then ask you more questions and show sympathy for how you are feeling. [6] X Trustworthy Source Greater Good Magazine Journal published by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, which uses scientific research to promote happier living Go to source So when they get attracted to a person most of them are in a state of confusion as they think it’s not agreeable to feel so. Once they accept that it’s common, they won’t curse themselves for the same and take things smoothly. Most of them get annoyed by proposals rather than being annoyed if they just state their opinion and response to the same they can move on from there. There are many girls and boys who have lost themselves in this confusion. As rejection feels like denial from all ways. They feel like a drifter in desert in search of something that they can hold on to, forgoing their hold on themselves.

This beautifully illustrated How Are You Feeling Today? Poster is both a lovely wall display as well as a great way to introduce feelings, emotions as well as wellbeing, self-care and mindfulness to your children and can be used as a discussion prompt, a learning tool and a lovely decoration in your classroom. Getting better. Positive and energetic. A little unexpected, but still fairly common. Still, I think you can provide something more interesting. Gender roles are specific roles on the basis of their sex. It is illogical and yet considered appropriate by society. We should understand that gender roles are learned and are not present in you from birth i.e., sex roles. After the activity girls started shouting out their responses. All of them have all these thoughts piled up in their mind and have understood unjustness of such roles. Both men and women are restricted to the assumed roles in society, devoiding them of opportunity to explore their true identity.

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. What I like about How Are You Feeling Today? is that it doesn't just focus on negative emotions. Children can find positive emotions (like excitement) equally overwhelming. It's great not just for talking to children about emotions in general but for identifying their specific emotions that day and coming up with a plan for dealing with them.

Give your kids a little extra guidance in expressing their feelings with this How Do You Feel Today? Emotions Chart. Some children struggle to communicate their needs and emotions, particularly younger children. Tools like this chart have been designed to make the difficult task of teaching such children how to communicate effectively a little bit easier. When children can label their emotions well, they become more capable of managing the way they communicate and react to people. Consider working with a therapist, who can help you navigate mental health issues around fear, such as: For example, you may say, “I’m fine, thanks for asking. How are you?” or “I’m okay, thanks. How about you?” Consider other emotions not included in the book and come up with ideas of what you could do when you felt those. e.g. lonely, disappointed, grateful.