How to help children understand emotions and improve emotional awareness

What can be done to help your child understand their emotions, or rather, what are good and more effective practices for mothers and fathers to help their baby to be more emotionally cognitive.First of all, let’s think about the question, how do you know what your baby’s current emotional perception, or emotional understanding, really is?If your child is over 3 years old, you are welcome to take a look at the following tips. You are welcome to see if your child is doing any of the following behaviours.

Firstly, your child understands when you make an angry face at him when he makes a mistake. Also, when he finds out that his favourite toy is broken, he will say how he feels, “I am sad, I am angry”. Also, when a child is angry, he can clearly state the reason why he is angry now, rather than just crying.

At the same time, the child has ideas and suggestions on how to make himself feel better after the emotions have arisen and how to deal with these bad emotions.

The above questions are some of the behaviours that children with better emotional understanding will do, for parents’ reference.

Let’s first understand what emotional cognitive skills are involved.

Firstly, it is the ability to understand emotional states, including the ability to read expressions, which is what we generally refer to as being able to read people’s faces, and this ability is very important for children to understand themselves and others. The basic emotions of human beings can be divided into four categories: happy, sad, angry and scared. Studies have shown that by the age of nine months, a baby can understand a range of emotions such as happiness and sadness by looking at the expressions on an adult’s face. Around the age of two years he will be able to understand what positive and negative emotions are. It is around three years of age that they can better distinguish between these so-called positive and negative emotions. So by the age of two or three, parents should pay special attention to their child’s emotional awareness and provide them with the assistance they need.

Secondly, the ability to understand simple emotions, for example, he is so happy when he gets a present.

There is also the ability to understand mixed emotions, which can be more complex in life. For example, now that kindergarten is going on holiday, on the one hand I am happy that I can play at home every day without going to school. At the same time, I am a little sad that I can’t see the children in my class and I can’t play with them anymore. This is the kind of thing that can cause a mixture of different emotions, and your baby’s emotional awareness skills are particularly strong if he or she can also make sense of the situation.

Parents may want to think about how well they understand this part of their baby’s life, including how quickly you can observe when your baby is in a mood. Are you good at reading emotions? At the same time, you can understand the complexity of emotions, which are often superimposed on each other at the same time.

For example, if an adult is happy with a child, but feels stressed and overwhelmed at the same time, this range of mental activities is a mix of emotional understanding.

Emotional comprehension also includes an understanding of the process of emotions. There are processes involved in the production of emotions and this process includes understanding the reasons for the emotions, i.e. why do I feel this way, what is happening or why. Some children will say clearly, “I’m sad because Mummy and Daddy have to go out to work and can’t play with me”. Or he will say, “I’m angry because someone else has just taken my toy”.

These are the ones that can describe the reasons for the emotions very clearly. Understanding the reasons is particularly important because our thoughts determine our moods.

The ability to understand the rules of how emotions should be expressed. For example, there is a birthday party today. When the baby opens the present and realises that it is not what I want at all and that I don’t like it, how should he or she express his or her emotions? Some children are very direct and just throw the present over the side and say “I hate this present”. This can be a very awkward situation. Some children will know that even though I don’t like it, I will still say ‘thank you’ to the person who gave it to me, even though I am a little disappointed, but I will use a better way of expressing my emotions and what would be a more reasonable way to express them in different situations.

An understanding of the different ways of mediating emotions. That is, I know what ways I have to turn a bad mood into a good mood.

Like some babies will know that I am not happy and I can do things to cheer myself up. For example, I can take a deep breath, I can sing a song, I can run and play for a while, and I will instantly feel better. For me to know how to regulate my own emotions. This is an important part of emotional understanding, and it is also the first step towards emotional management.

Mum and dad can also take a fresh look at themselves and see if we, as adults, are up to par in terms of emotional awareness. At the same time, when parents have a positive emotional attitude, can they understand what causes their child’s emotions when he or she is in the mood, why he or she is angry? Why is he angry? Why is he sad? Are parents able to figure it out quickly? Also, when I have an emotion myself, I can know how to express it at the moment. For example, do I reprimand the child in front of many people, or do I have a better way of expressing it? What can I do to make myself feel better when I am upset and feel that my child is not listening to me no matter what I say?

If mum and dad don’t have very good emotional control, a big part of the reason may be that they didn’t pay attention to the development of emotional awareness when they were young and didn’t lay a good foundation. So it’s a good opportunity for you and your child to grow in emotional awareness together.

First of all, what is particularly bad and should never be done.

If you don’t show your anger, if you don’t express your feelings at all, you have a cold face and are always high strung, which is very bad with children.

Ignoring your child’s emotions and coming home every day only to ask them, “What did they learn in school today? What is the homework? But you never ask your child how he or she is feeling today. Did you have any fun?

Many parents will say, “I’m so happy, my baby is happy too. It is the idea that my child’s emotions have to be in sync with mine and that if I am in a good mood, my child can’t be bummed out and say he is unhappy. If I am angry, my baby has to show an unhappy expression too. This is certainly not appropriate, you are you and your child is your child, everyone has their own emotional feelings and ability to understand.

Having said that, what are the good things to do? What are the best ways to help your child develop the emotional awareness he or she needs.

We’ve talked about the concept of strong emotions before, and we encourage parents to share their emotions with their children and tell them why.

For example, baby, I noticed that you took the initiative to help us today. Mummy is so happy, or you can say that you hit your grandparents when you were angry, and mummy and daddy were very upset because we believe that you should never hit anyone when you are angry.

Describing the reason for the emotion and the state of the emotion in this way will help the child to understand why mum and dad have the emotion and where it comes from, and will also help him to be able to understand his own inner emotions.

Accept all of your child’s emotions, whether they are happy and positive, or negative and negative.

Whether the child is angry, very scared, anxious, frustrated, sad or upset about something. No matter what the emotion is, the first action a parent should take is to ‘accept him’.

Acceptance doesn’t mean agreement, acceptance means I understand that you feel this way. Your baby is still young and understanding his emotions will help him to understand his own emotions.

So what parents can do at this time is to express your concern and understanding of their child’s emotions when they have them, by saying something like, “Baby, I know you’re angry, or I know you’re sad. Say directly that I know how you are feeling and then you can ask him if I am right. And this question mark is especially important, so please don’t forget to add the question “Is it right?” after the expression. You can say, “Daddy knows you’re angry, right?

By asking this question, your baby will have the opportunity to express his true feelings, and at the same time give him a chance to think about whether this is what Mummy and Daddy are saying. If so, the baby will say “yes” and if he finds that mummy and daddy are wrong and don’t understand what I’m thinking, he will have the opportunity to say “no, I’m not angry, I’m sad.”

Such conversations help children understand that emotions are something to be concerned about, that Mum and Dad care about how I feel, and that I have the right to express my feelings, both of which are particularly important for children’s emotional awareness skills.

Always ask your child the reason for his or her emotions.

For example, Mum seems to think you are not in a good mood today, is there something on your mind? Give your child the opportunity to practise and find out the reasons behind the emotions.

If your child is young, under three years old, and his language skills are just developing, you can give him multiple choice questions.

You could say, “I notice you seem a bit disappointed, is that what it is? And what are the reasons for your disappointment? Because one, you have a fever today and you were supposed to take you out, and you were disappointed that you couldn’t go to your classmate’s party when you had clearly said you were going to go before, or that you particularly liked that little child. Which one did you feel particularly disappointed that you couldn’t go and play with him?

Guide your child to name the emotion. Usually, when interacting with your child, whenever you have the opportunity, you can ask your child how you feel about this event that just happened, please? Keep asking questions to help children notice and pay attention to the emotions they feel in their daily lives.

Doing this will help your child to develop the habit of communicating their moods. If your child cannot answer at first, you can also turn the question and answer into a multiple choice question.

“How did you feel when you just looked like that, did you feel happy or surprised, sad, or angry?” By giving your child multiple choice questions first, you will help him to understand the emotion words and he will use them himself the next time.

Good ways to help your child to think about, and emotions to solve.

For example, in the course of interacting with your child, you can often ask him. “I know you are angry right now, I know you are sad right now. Do you think there is a good way to cheer yourself up?”

Ask your child questions at this time, you can say with curiosity, “Let’s think together about what is a good way to make yourself feel better, okay.” Use this very positive and curious way to do thinking with your child.

Also mum and dad should learn to control their emotions. When mum and dad don’t hold their own emotions and start to get angry, the baby will feel stressed and when the child feels stressed, he is not able to think. So when you reprimand your baby and he starts to cry, and you ask him what’s the best way to get in a better mood, he’s guaranteed not to think of anything. So if parents can’t hold their own emotions, it will only make the situation worse and the baby will become more anxious and stressed, which is what no one wants to see, so it is especially important that parents are emotionally stable and need to be patient and sincere in helping their child find a good way to get better.