Feeling Faces
Understanding and expressing feelings is another important coping skill for children and adults.
Understanding and expressing feelings is another important coping skill for children and adults. Helping children name emotions is an important first step in building social-emotional skills, and can lay the foundation for honest, healing conversations. Knowing the names of feelings can help children identify and talk about their own emotions, as well as develop empathy for others who may be feeling the same way.
Print this page and point to the different characters. Talk with children about how they are feeling. You can say, “Look, Big Bird is feeling happy. He’s smiling.” Make feeling faces along with the characters. You can say, “This is my happy face.” Children can color the page.
Social Chat: Talking About Feelings
We can incorporate social-emotional skills, such as learning and talking about feelings, into our everyday activities.
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We can incorporate social-emotional skills, such as learning and talking about feelings, into our everyday activities.
