February 20th, 2012 Tackling emotions Posted by Melitsa in play activities

We meet strong emotions all the time. The amount of times we decide to do a planned activity and we’re stumped and sidetracked by an emotional child. Not just that but we bring our own emotions. We’ve had a bad phone call, fight with a family member, not enough sleep or new fire to put out. It’s hard to just switch over to being this playful parent with life going on behind you.

Sometimes we know that we were out a little too long and it’s nap time. But many times we’re just stumped. I recognise that many times I have no idea why or how the afternoon went pear-shaped. It’s much harder after a battle of wills to work with your child. So let’s take a look at some ideas on managing emotions so play can be again fun, exciting and present.

Teaching Children How To Handle Their Emotions: As Simple As PIE

Verbalizing Emotions

Teach Children About Feelings And Emotions

::: separation anxiety – tips for teachers

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I like these solutions to tackling emotions, both our emotions and our family. It’s not an easy option to tackle yet our emotional state leaks into almost everything we do at home. The wrong tone, a dirty look, roll of the eye and our body language give off clues and teach our children how to use their emotion. How is it possible to have playful home when it’s so full of such high emotion?

Hearing your child parrot back something you say is sometimes a cringe moment. When you say it, surely it doesn’t sound like that?

The better solution I’ve found of late is to be more proactive about emotions which I’ll talk about in the next post.

How do you handle your negative emotions?

Melitsa Avila is a former teacher, mother of three boys and military wife who talks about living an intentional play lifestyle using practical and everyday play activities to do with the under 5s. She publishes related ebooks & newsletters. Melitsa is the host and producer of a weekly Early Childhood radio show: Raising Playful Tots bringing parents and carers together with Early childhood practitioners. Thanks for reading!

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