GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Emotional intelligence in children is crucial for effective communication and boundary setting. Wedgwood Christian Services stresses the importance of modeling and ...

Accurately identifying which specific emotions you are feeling is the foundation of all other emotion regulation skills. Here are three ways to improve your emotion identification (including a fun one ...

In his latest book, Dealing with Feeling, Brackett shares the emotion regulation skills that can help both kids and adults relate to themselves in a different way. He’s an advocate of changing how we ...

As parents, one of our greatest motivations is to protect our children from pain and suffering—in essence, from negative emotions. Nonetheless, despite our best efforts, our children will be ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- Helping kids navigate their emotions is a skill that may not come naturally to many parents. After all, we as parents often forget that our children are complex beings who ...

Great! Your kid already knows how to name their feelings. But naming feelings is just the first step. The real magic happens when children develop emotional awareness: understanding not just what they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anxiety, at right — pictured here with Joy — is one of the new emotions in Inside Out 2 and really steals the show. (Pixar) The ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...