We know the importance of emotions and their managementHowever, we do not always have the tools that allow us to do so. We offer you some resources to work on emotions such as sadness, joy, anger, pain ... whose correct management causes certain social skills, such as assertiveness, self-esteem, empathy.
Many fathers and mothers do not have the resources to assist in the development and management of emotions of their children. That is why it is necessary for them to be able to find them, and to facilitate this work, which is already done in classrooms and in other educational and social spaces.
Resources to work on emotions from 0 to 6 years old
One of the first exercises any baby does naturally is interpret the face. This is how you will notice when your mom is angry, sad, or happy. To work with young children on emotions we can teach them a series of drawings in which the characters show these feelings.
We have already mentioned the book on some occasions Emocionario, in which there are more than 22 different emotions, and from which you can download the records to work on emotions with children. Sometimes it is not so easy, even for adults, to describe if we have anger, helplessness or frustration, for example.
The videos that you can find on YouTube or other channels will also help your young children feel empathy for the characters and share those emotions of loneliness, surprise or illusion. Anger is an emotion that is essential to learn to manage well at these ages.
Manage emotions from 6 to 12 years old
We recommend starting at these ages collective games with other boys and girls in which each one manifests and interacts with their own emotions. For example, a workshop in which children complete a story, or just finish a sentence. The exercise may not end here but the emotions that have arisen can be grouped together, or you can talk about which ones are contradictory to each other.
Another of the games that you can do at home is "Discover how you are"It is highly recommended to work on the identity and perception that each child has of himself, his emotions and feelings. It starts with a Self Description physics and little by little more subtle qualifiers and adjectives are incorporated.
We also recommend a series of shorts, from the La Claqueta association in which they teach values such as friendship, tolerance and respect for others. These shorts are one of the many videos that you can find in which emotions are worked on as fundamental tools for coexistence.
From the age of 9, 10, boys and girls enter the preadolescence. Now the correct management of emotions is essential to adapt to the physical and psychic changes that occur. We cannot hold hormones responsible for everything. It is important to have a good range of resources and use them.
Address emotions in the classroom after confinement
We want to talk about the page developed by the Department of Education of the Generalitat in which it is offered to parents and teachers a series of resources to address emotions of students, after returning to schools and institutes after the closure forced by COVID19.
With these resources the meeting spaces, dynamics of reunion with the recommended social distance, attention to the emotional needs of those children who are in the process of mourning. There are also videos with expert reflections pedagogues, psychologists, the field of guidance, center directors. These videos are accompanied by guides, documents and other materials that will help mothers to manage the emotional impact that returning to the classroom has for everyone.
We believe that in other communities this attention will also be paid to the management of emotions, of children, after the period of the state of alarm and the summer holidays.