Molly Potter's Blog

 

                   

How Are You Feeling Today?

 
Tips, topics, ideas, advice and food for thought

to prompt discussions and different interactions

between you and your child that will help them

navigate life better.

January 4th, 2022
Parenting conference with worldwide authors, psychologists and experts talking about children's behaviour, wellbeing and emotional literacy

I took part in an interview with the wonderful ...

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December 14th, 2021
The Same but Different - activity pack

This...

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December 3rd, 2021
Not convinced about emotional literacy?

So emotional literacy seems to be my niche. I have written books about it, deliver ...

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November 27th, 2021
Identifying feelings and emotions

Professor Marc Brackett is clearly an advocate of emotional literacy. He certainly...

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November 19th, 2021
What is emotional literacy and why is it important?

What is emotional literacy and why it is important? seem like simple questions to...

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November 5th, 2021
What can we say about anxiety?

My video: What can we say about...

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October 30th, 2021
Why tuning into emotions can be helpful

In our somewhat over-rational world that I suspect would happily obliterate...

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October 22nd, 2021
What can we say about fear?

My latest video: What can we say...

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October 18th, 2021
The Same but Different - an interview

You can find an interview on the Reading Zone website about my latest book: The Same...

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October 18th, 2021
What Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) taught me

Quite a few years ago now, I came across EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique when a...

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October 4th, 2021
What can we say about hurt?

A video about the emotion or experience of being hurt can be found here:...

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September 21st, 2021
What can we say about happiness?

My latest video explores both the emotion of joy and the kind of happiness that's...

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August 28th, 2021
What can we say about shame?

I made the video: What...

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August 19th, 2021
Coping with sadness

To support the video I made: ...

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August 18th, 2021
Top Ten Tips for emotional literacy

I made this video: Top ten tips...

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August 17th, 2021
Managing Worry

I made this video about worry:...

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July 9th, 2021
Managing anger

I made this video about anger: ...

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June 25th, 2021
It's OK to Cry - it really is!

I have mentioned in a previous...

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June 25th, 2021
Empathy Walk

For empathy day, which was a while ago now, I was inspired by the...

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June 23rd, 2021
The same but different

This book is due out this October. I have seen the PDF of it and Sarah Jenning’s...

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May 25th, 2021
Low self esteem

I wrote this post for another blog as it is aimed at adults. However, I think there is...

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May 20th, 2021
Create a worry machine

I created this worry machine a while ago for World Book Day, setting children the task...

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April 30th, 2021
Videos to support the teaching and learning of emotional literacy

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Despite being very new to film...

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April 21st, 2021
How are you feeling today? activity and sticker book by Molly Potter

My How are you feeling today? - activity and sticker book...

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April 21st, 2021
Molly Potter books

Revelling in the titles of some of my books.....



....the books about feelings...

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April 12th, 2021
How are you feeling today? Book 2 by Molly Potter and Hampton Junior School

The teachers of Year 6 of Hampton Junior School contacted me about an exciting project...

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March 26th, 2021
Dealing with point-blank refusal from your child

In a pupil referral unit, point blank refusal from a child is such a regular event...

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March 21st, 2021
A collage of feelings

For an absolutely wonderful local independent book shop and for World Book Day, I made...

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March 18th, 2021
Making Mistakes

We all know the many wisdoms said about making mistakes that tell us about them being...

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February 23rd, 2021
Ten ideas to help your child with their return to school

It’s been a weird time for all of us. And soon for many children,  it’s time to return...

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February 16th, 2021
Never label emotions 'good' or 'bad'

It is really important that we never label emotions 'good' or 'bad' with our children...

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February 4th, 2021
Positive mental health tools - for Children's Mental health Week

I wrote, ‘What’s going on inside my head?’ as a tool to help parents/carers...

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January 14th, 2021
Low-mood menu

We all know what ‘moods’ are but we don’t often give them a lot of thought. Such...

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January 6th, 2021
Creative activities for lockdown

I have uploaded some more unusual activities from my books to keep your younguns...

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November 29th, 2020
Expressing anger (and a look at boundaries as another way of considering assertiveness!)
As I have said in earlier posts, healthy emotions arrive and leave. In other words:...
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November 18th, 2020
Looking at individual emotions in greater detail

This is a short post to introduce the idea of taking an emotion at a time and...

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November 12th, 2020
It's OK to Cry by Molly Potter - free activity pack.

You can download a free activity pack that is great to use alongside my book, 'It's OK...

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November 10th, 2020
Boredom - it's a good thing

I remember whining ‘I’m bored’ with some regularity when I was a child. Although I...

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October 19th, 2020
Anxiety - a very uncomfortable emotion

Anxiety seems to be very much on the up. I don’t think this is overly surprising. The...

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September 11th, 2020
The emotions of returning to ‘normal’

I often marvel at how the emotions of situations are so rarely acknowledged despite...

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