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Analyzing Your Children Sentiments Positively - Final Part III

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Blog by Tushar Sheth Parents, I am continuing my new series on Analyzing Your Children Sentiments Positively - Final Part III here sharing my insights and experience in parenting children further If mom or dad get really upset mom or dad can take care of themselves and they can calm themselves down some other ways that you can practice emotional regulation in families is you know take a feeling thermometer print went out and let your kids color it in and stick it up on the refrigerator maybe at dinner each night you can say a red zone in a green zone moment from the day from each family member. If you don't want to use the feeling thermometer or red zone green zone language you can simply say let's each say our thumbs-up or a thumbs-down for the day for younger kids you might take a mirror a hand mirror and actually practice making silly faces and mad faces and scared faces and have your child look in the mirror and really look at how their face looks appears in the mi...

Analyzing Your Children Sentiments Positively - Part II

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Blog by Tushar Sheth Parents, I am continuing my new series on Analyzing Your Children Sentiments Positively - Part II here sharing my insights and experience in parenting children positively further. And so here is where you start seeing just mad sad happy and scared you start seeing things like excited and so kids start understanding a little bit more that there's a difference between two feeling States. Here they also start paying attention more to the feelings of others. So empathy starts to emerge and this is really mostly in the context of their caregivers that they are able to read other people's feelings States. It may not happen with a complete stranger yet at this point and once kids move into school age and they start going to kindergarten first grade they really end on they continue to develop emotional awareness emotional expression. But here is where some of the regulation of feelings comes in they start learning coping skills.  They also start...

Analyzing Your Children Sentiments Positively - Part I

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Blog by Tushar Sheth Welcome to the new series of my blog "Behold the Power of Parenting". I'm really excited to share it with all kinds of parents today. I'm here to talk to you all about understanding your child's emotions and we're going to take a developmental approach and is going to just get started right off the bat with a photo of a tantrum so I can kind of all bring myself into the mind of the child and into the mind of a parent. I think every parent can probably relate to that moment when you just are about to enter that power struggle with your child and it's really hard work to be able to manage helping your child through some tough emotions while at the same time setting a limit or a boundary with them. And your parenting is such hard work that if we really do value our children we simply must cherish our parents and so it just really important. I think that we remember that parenting is such tough work and perhaps the hardest job t...