Emily Chan
With all the stressors that kids growing up in this day and age must face, it’s more essential than ever that parents help their children deal with emotions in a healthy manner.
Parents play a tremendous role in their children’s social and emotional development. It can be difficult to figure out how best to help your child in this area, especially since the social scene for kids has become vastly different over the past few years.
For one, there was the COVID pandemic, which kept everyone indoors and interrupted schooling. School is a large part of the everyday life of a kid.
It’s where they spend a considerable chunk of their days interacting with their peers. Take that away, and much of their opportunity for social interaction is gone.
And then, there’s social media, which changes how people communicate nowadays even more. Increasingly younger kids have made their way onto certain platforms and are accustomed to text messaging rather than chatting face-to-face.
So a combination of both occurrences can make it challenging for your child to develop their social and emotional skills.
These skills are just as important as any others. Being able to manage emotions, control impulses, and communicate effectively will have a positive effect on your child’s overall well-being and future relationships.
If you are trying to help your child improve their social and emotional skills, here are some ways to integrate social and emotional learning activities throughout the day.
One activity you can do with your child is to create a mood chart. Mood charts are great for preschool-aged kids. They give your child visual representations of feelings and emotions.
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