Children’s Feelings
When you help children to understand and express their emotions, you help them grow and thrive.
Feelings and Emotions
When you help children understand and express emotions, you’re helping them overcome challenges, understand others, and communicate. In simple ways, you can give them important tools to help them handle feelings, big and small.
An important first step to managing emotions is being able to name them. Start with these resources to help.
Find resources, activities, and videos to explore emotions some more!
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Me Love You, Cookie
Cookie Monster celebrates kindness, bravery, silliness, smarts, and more in this cookie-shaped board book filled with love. A playful flap makes story time even sweeter.
Happy Dance
Get The Wiggles Out
Feeling Wiggly? Let’s move with together with the Sesame Street characters!
The Monster at the End of This Book
This is an animated storybook app, which will humorously help teach your child about emotions and early reading skills.
Using Your Words
A coloring page helping children explore words for big feelings.
Abby’s Broken Wand
A storybook featuring strategies to help children cope with big feelings.
Where do you feel big feelings?
Use this graphic to start a conversation with your child about big feelings.
How to Manage Big Feelings
We can help children notice, name, and manage their big feelings.
How Big is Your Feeling?
A scale to figure out how big your child’s feelings are.
Discover more resources for parents, caregivers, and providers.
Calming Strategies
Little ones need lots of help from caring adults to grow and thrive. We offer calming strategies on comforting and providing nurturing touch, all of which are required for healthy brain development!
Grief
Your love and support can help children understand death and cope with grief.
Building Resilience in Children and Families
Give children tools and coping skills to overcome both little and big challenges to help them learn and grow.
