Identify your child's best friend and discuss what they are like. Encourage them to be as praiseworthy as possible, and then focus in on the feeling it creates in your child eg loved, trusted, accompanied.
1) Let's think about your best friend. What are they like?
2) How do they make you feel?
3) How do you think you make them feel?
Identify your child's best friend and discuss what they are like. Encourage them to be as praiseworthy as possible, and then focus in on the feeling it creates in your child eg loved, trusted, accompanied.
1) Let's think about your best friend. What are they like?
2) How do they make you feel?
3) How do you think you make them feel?
Examples: happy, angry, tired, hungry, jealous, content, pity, anticipation, disgust, sad, brave, love, hope, confusion.
1) Look I am smiling…so how am I feeling?
2) What are some opposites to what you have just said?
3) How do you feel most of the time?
Examples: happy, angry, tired, hungry, jealous, content, pity, anticipation, disgust, sad, brave, love, hope, confusion.
1) Look I am smiling…so how am I feeling?
2) What are some opposites to what you have just said?
3) How do you feel most of the time?
Discuss why people cry. Explain it is often an overflowing of emotion and crying is a perfectly acceptable outlet. Talk about how as they grow up probably they will be able to control emotions more and so they will cry less, but crying when it gets too much is fine even for grown-ups.
1) Remember the last time you were crying. What had happened?
2) What are all the reasons for why it is OK to cry?
3) How much more or less do grown-ups cry?
Discuss why people cry. Explain it is often an overflowing of emotion and crying is a perfectly acceptable outlet. Talk about how as they grow up probably they will be able to control emotions more and so they will cry less, but crying when it gets too much is fine even for grown-ups.
1) Remember the last time you were crying. What had happened?
2) What are all the reasons for why it is OK to cry?
3) How much more or less do grown-ups cry?
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