Ideas to make reading ‘How are you feeling today?’ by me, even more engaging!
Category: activities
Name your brain!
My daughter told me ages ago that she named her brain, ‘Jenny’. Strictly speaking, it was more than just her…
Tools for Interacting with Children to Increase their Emotional Intelligence
There are lots of activities you can do with children to promote the development of emotional intelligence and if you…
Emotion Scavenger Hunt!
Emotion Scavenger Hunt An activity for parents to do with their children at home is an emotion scavenger hunt. (It…
Gratitude
It’s quite well understood that our brains have a negativity bias. We evolved it to survive. In our hunter-gathering days,…
Increasing emotion vocabulary
Research has shown that increasing emotion vocabulary increases emotional intelligence. It makes sense that if you have more words to…
Pause and Cool Down!
This week’s video: Pause and Cool Down (cooling down strategies), goes very well with last week’s video: The Pause button…
Emotion Symptom Checker
We know when we’re hungry right? But do we tune into the symptoms that tell us that we are: an…
Words for Anger
This ‘anger words’ sheet is used in my latest video in the series: ACTIVITIES TO EXPLORE EMOTIONS that I will…
Activities to Explore Emotions
Over the next few months, I am going to post twenty very short videos describing some activities that can be…
Emotions as visitors
A useful way of thinking of emotions is to think of them as visitors to your body that come, and…
Get outdoors with your kids! (Bossy huh?)
I had an interview with the wonderful Sarah Seamen from Muddy Puddle Teacher earlier this week for their podcast. My publisher…