Helping Kids to identify and express their feelings

Sometimes children have big feelings and it is difficult to know how to respond as parents. Big feeling are often expressed as behaviour that can be best described as challenging!  As a parent you have an important role to play in developing your child’s emotional skills and helping them to learn healthy ways to express their feelings. 

Here are some great tips from the Kids Helpline that can help your child to learn about expressing their feelings:

• Tune into cues
• Behind every behaviour is a feeling
• Name the feeling
• Identify feelings in others
• Be a role model
• Encourage with praise
• Listen to your child’s feelings

For more information please visit Kids Helpline website for additional resources or contact Olivia, your school counsellor if you have concerns about your child’s ability to express their emotions or you need support to develop healthy coping strategies.

https://kidshelpline.com.au/parents/issues/helping-kids-identify-and-express-feelings

SCHOOL COUNSELLOR SERVICE

Please get in touch with Olivia either via the online referral form or her email (links both below).

This year school counselling will be available all day on Mondays. School counselling is offered to help students cope with stress, emotional and behavioural issues, mental health difficulties, and improve students' overall well-being. To engage with school counselling the online referral form will need to be filled out and this can be done on a mobile phone. If you have any queries or concerns, please don’t hesitate to make contact with me through email at olivia.bowring-greer@catholiccare.cg.org.au