Obviously nobody can guess what another person is feeling with 100% accuracy all of the time. “I am wondering…” is…
Month: February 2019
Resilience
Here is my blog post on the Bloomsbury education website about resilience linked to my most recent book. ‘What’s going…
Validating emotions (and shame)
An important part of developing emotional literacy is about helping your child to understand that all feelings are valid. We…
Emotion management: the ‘gap’
As I have said in previous posts, part of emotional literacy is about having some ‘control’ over (or ‘good management…
Emotion Posters
I put together the following six, A4 emotion posters for use with my pupils at school. The emotions are straightforward…
Sticking to your guns!
What I cover in this post will seem obvious but I think it’s always good to reflect a little because…
Talk to your boys about feelings
Some of the messages our boys receive from a very young age Suicide is still the biggest killer of males…
Regulating emotional responses
For children to develop better emotion regulation, it can help them to think about the ‘gap’ between the trigger that…
Make a Worry Mashing Machine
This is an an fun way to explore coping strategies for worrying, with your child. The idea is you’re going…
Thank you, not please
You might already know this little trick but if not, it’s too good not to add to your toolkit of…
Spectrum of Happiness
Something useful that children can learn about emotions is that they have different strengths. Much of the time our emotions…
The birds and the bees and all that stuff! Why it’s important to talk.
‘The stork of taboo!’ The idea of children (and young people) learning about sex and relationships appears to cause a…