Teach Feelings

• Teach your child to identify her feelings beyond the typical happy, sad and mad. Talk to your child about more complex feelings, such as frustration and jealousy. Describe these feelings as either more or less intense than the typical feelings she is used to. Use flashcards with faces of the emotions, or have your child draw her own take on the emotions you describe. Teaching a child to identify feelings is an important step in dealing effectively with the emotion. Identification of emotions allows a child to understand how she is feeling and what she needs to do next in order to deal with it.