The Big Emotions Teach Me How Bundle includes three of our best printables to teach your child skills how to manage their big feelings, take responsibility for their mistakes, and how to name and understand their feelings.
What To Do With The Mad That You Feel will teach your child how to manage their big feelings. The Lesson teaches your child how to name their emotions so they can practice taming them. The Role Plays help your child to practice naming their feelings and practice using one of the techniques in the Calm Down Activity Cards. The Activity features Calm Down Activity Cards with ideas to release big feelings when they overwhelm you.
What To Do If You Make A Mistake will help your child learn how to take responsibility and make things better. The Lesson teaches your child how to find your part and take responsibility when you make a mistake. The Role Plays help your child to practice common situations where mistakes happen or they may need to apologize. The Activity teaches how to repair and make things better when you make a mistake. Your child can create their own comic strip that can be customized with facial expressions and sound effects.
Words For What I'm Feeling will teach your child how to name their feelings to better understand them. The Lesson includes an emotion wheel with 35 emotions and an interactive cut and match activity. The Role Plays will help your child give a feeling word to describe situtations and situational role plays to practice positive behavior when they feel different emotions. The Activity features an emotion/body worksheet to help you child understand where they may feel emotions in their body, name what they are feeling, and steps they can take to feel better.
Every themed printable includes:
A Lesson (short and interactive)
Role Plays (the best way to teach new skills)
A Visual Cue (a reminder of what was taught)
An Activity (deepens learning, more fun for everyone)
And more! (extension ideas, teaching tips, etc.)
Teaching is the HARDEST part of parenting! Especially teaching in a way that is fun, positive, and cultivates a stronger connection. The Teach Me How series is made for families, to give you tools to deliberately teach social and emotional skills while simultaneously becoming a stronger family!
Do it in one meeting or break it up into several. You AND your child can take turns teaching!
