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How to Help Your Six-Year-Old Understand and Manage Emotions
How to Help Your Six-Year-Old Understand and Manage Emotions
Emotional self-awareness involves identifying and understanding one’s emotions – including “big feelings” that can sometimes overwhelm us. Six-year-olds can begin to understand and identify more complex emotions. While preschoolers may only know the word “mad,” at this age you can help kids differentiate between angry, frustrated, annoyed and disappointed – and what types of situations may cause a person to feel a certain way. They can also understand that they may have more than one feeling at the same time.