Episode 18: Managing Big Emotions - A Must-Try Social-Emotional Tip

Helping young children handle big feelings is one of the most important and often most challenging parts of early childhood teaching. 

In this episode, Alex shares one powerful, simple strategy that helps students build emotional awareness and empowers them to self-regulate.

Whether you're working with Pre-K, TK, or Kindergarten, this tip is easy to implement and creates meaningful moments of connection and calm in your classroom.

✨ You’ll learn:

1. Why teaching emotional language is essential (and often overlooked)
2. How to model and practice emotion identification during your daily routine
3. A simple tool to help students express how they feel and what they need
4. Encouragement to focus on growth, not perfection, with SEL

This isn’t about eliminating big feelings. It’s about giving students the tools to understand and manage them. ❤️

🔗 Mentioned in this episode

📖 Read the full blog post: Must-Try Tip for Teaching Social-Emotional Skills

🧰 Inside the Print and Play Club:

1. ✅ Emotion visuals and social-emotional tools
2. ✅ Calm corner printables and routine charts
3. ✅ SEL mini-lessons designed for real early childhood classrooms

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The Happy Teaching Podcast with The Kindergarten Connection is the go-to podcast for Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers who want simple, effective, and joyful teaching strategies—fast!

Hosted by Alex John, this bite-sized podcast delivers classroom management tips, engaging lesson ideas, and real-life solutions you can implement immediately. Whether you're looking to create smoother routines, build stronger student connections, or bring more fun into your teaching day, each episode (in ten minutes or less!) is designed to make your job easier and your classroom happier.

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