FeelLinks Blog

Children are often seen as resilient - capable of bouncing back after setbacks with ease. However, this perception can lead adults to being dismissive or downplay children's emotions. It's critical to recognize that children experience a wide range of emotions just like adults, and these emotions play a crucial role in their development and well-being.

Parents, caretakers, educators, anyone with children in their lives, this is a must read on how to fill and refill the emotional cup of a child. What fills their cup? What empties their cup? How do we teach children to advocate appropriately for an emotional cup refill?

Highly sensitive children to highly resilient children. Nurturing our children and meeting their needs; being the best parents, caretakers and teachers, to meet the needs of our unique children.

Understanding emotional intelligence is important for all parents and caretakers. What is it? Why is it important? How can we teach it to our children? Knowledge is power!

We should all do our best to create a supportive environment where our children are free to verbalize, process, and express all emotions.

We need to listen to our children and avoid constantly swooping in to be the “fixer” or be the “dismisser” (not a real word, but it sounds good).  Here are four things you can do show your child you are present, supportive and attentive!

Tuning in to our child's underlying emotions can help parents better understand their outward behaviors. Take a closer look at how to be more OPEN with this practice.

As parents, we teach our children to apologize to siblings, parents and friends when they have hurt them in some way. Parents, when you make a mistake, do you apologize to your child or do you resist doing so? Today I discuss why it is important to model the same behavior we are expecting from our children - and apologizing is one of them.