What if helping children with their emotions isn't about making the difficult feelings disappear?
What if it's about teaching them that sadness, anger, fear and other emotions are something they can understand, experience and work through?
In this episode of Uncovered, Jason explores children's emotional wellbeing, mental health and the way we teach young people to relate to what they're feeling.
The conversation looks at an important question:
Are we teaching children how to understand their emotions - or unintentionally teaching them to hide them?
Jason and his guest discuss research around child and adolescent mental health, the pressures young people and teachers experience, and why emotional development may deserve far more attention within our homes and schools.
In this episode, you'll hear perspectives on:
• Why children may struggle to identify what they're actually feeling • The difference between accepting an emotion and immediately trying to fix it • How childhood experiences can influence the way we relate to emotions as adults • Why sadness, anger and fear shouldn't automatically be treated as "bad" emotions • How parents can create space for children to experience their emotions • The emotional changes that can happen as children move into adolescence • Why boys and girls may communicate emotional struggles differently • The importance of individualised emotional support • The pressure teachers can experience when supporting children's emotional needs • Why developing emotional awareness earlier in life could make a difference later
One of the central ideas in this conversation is simple:
Instead of asking, "How do we stop this emotion?" perhaps we also need to ask, "What is this emotion trying to tell us?"
Personal growth doesn't have to begin in adulthood.
Learning to understand yourself, your emotions, reactions, beliefs and patterns - can become part of how you live from an early age.
At Wellness Breakthrough Academy, we believe personal growth is about continually developing your inner world and becoming the person who can consciously create more of the life you want.
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If this conversation made you think differently about emotions, childhood or the way we support young people, share it with a parent, teacher or someone who works with children.
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