Over the next few months, I am going to post twenty very short videos describing some activities that can be…
Category: emotional literacy
Let’s get curious about our emotions
There are emotional responses like fear and shock that are straightforward reactions that are about keeping us safe. These emotions…
The impact of under-acknowledging emotions
With the exception of someone like me, some teachers and some parents/carers putting emotions on the agenda, our society, in…
Emotions as visitors
A useful way of thinking of emotions is to think of them as visitors to your body that come, and…
Emotional Intelligence Progression
Over the many years that….. I have had a very keen interest in emotional intelligence, I have supported children in…
Help your child manage mild emotional discomfort
I have said in previous posts that many of us have a tendency to distract others – including our children…
An interview with Ella – about worry
I was contacted by Ella’s mum with a photo of the worry extractor machine she had designed and then made. The light goes…
I am a potato!
One of the simplest emotional literacy games I have played for years with children is entertainingly called, ‘I am a…
Thoughts and Feelings are Linked
Feelings affect our thinking and thinking affects what we feel. The two are linked. This seems obvious but we don’t…
The Same but Different – activity pack
This activity pack complements my latest book: The Same but Different which encourages children to celebrate diversity as well as…
Not convinced about emotional literacy?
So emotional literacy seems to be my niche. I have written books about it, deliver training on it, written teaching…
Identifying feelings and emotions
Professor Marc Brackett is clearly an advocate of emotional literacy. He certainly barks up the same tree as I do! I…