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How to Help Your Eight-Year-Old Understand and Manage Emotions
How to Help Your Eight-Year-Old Understand and Manage Emotions
Emotional self-awareness involves identifying and understanding one’s emotions – including “big feelings” that can sometimes overwhelm us. Eight-year-olds can learn to identify more complex emotions and talk about how their feelings can affect their behavior. For example, they can begin to see that feeling jealous of a friend might make them act grouchy toward that friend. They can also understand that it’s possible have “conflicting feelings” or “mixed emotions” about a situation.