Dealing with Feelings at Home

General Emotions

• Helpful vs. Harmful - Guide to helping your child navigate ways to manage emotions

• Creating Space for Big Feelings at Home - Guide to understand how to embrace and manage your child's big feelings.

• Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings - Tips on how to encourage your child to express their feelings, as learning to identify and express feelings in a positive way helps kids develop the skills they need to manage them effectively. 

• Vanderbilt University - Teaching Children about Emotions

• Child Mind Institute - A video to help calm a child with big emotions

• Understood.org -  An article on the strengths kids develop when they take on challenges

• Understood.org - An article on how to build resilience in children

Mindfulness

• Calm.com - website for guided meditations and relaxation, also available as an app for smartphones

Divorce

• Child Mind Institute - Advice on what to say when talking to children about divorce

• Child Mind Institute - How to support your child during a divorce

Anxiety/Stress

• Brain and Anxiety - A video link designed to help explain the brain and anxiety to children

• Mind Shift - How parents can recognize and help a child with anxiety

• Child Mind ; Quick Tips - Anxious Stomachaches and Headaches information and tips 

• Indiana University Health - Older kids and separation anxiety: How it happens and what to do 

• Anxious Behaviors - Anxiety in children: What is developmentally normal 

• Child Mind Institute - Tips to help Your elementary student handle stress

• Anxiety and Disruption - How untreated anxiety can look like disrespect

Grief and Loss 

• Helpful Resources for Children Dealing with Death:

  • National Alliance for Grieving Children

  • Dougy Center

  • Child Mind

  • Resources for Children

  • Coalition to Support Grieving Students

  • Grief Out Loud - Podcast

•   For Young Children Dealing with Grief:

  • Sesame Street - Games, activities and articles