Feelings Matter – building emotional resilience and emotional literacy with your children
The wonderfully calm and soothing tones of Lulu Luckock filled our ears last night with the most invaluable parenting advice. As parents we need to teach our children to “navigate their emotions not negate them”. Lulu’s acronym for this journey couldn’t be more fitting as everything we try to do as parents is driven by love. Find out what L.O.V.E. stands for when it comes to equipping your child with the tools they need to develop to trust their own capabilities. Helicopter parents beware - all this snow ploughing is setting your child up for an avalanche of unidentified emotions in the future, which breeds anxiety. Children need to fail and work out how to deal with failure; avoiding failure will stunt their emotional resilience.
Lulu went on to point out that the “carefree” childhood is fading due to the huge societal shift and the demands it has on a child yet the school system remains the same. As a result, children may experience ten different emotions in one day so help your child identify and validate each of those emotions so they can tackle every difficult part of their day. Happy is easy - sad/angry/overwhelmed is not. One of the top tips Lulu shared - keep yourself emotionally healthy and your child will learn coping mechanisms from the best. Finally, teach your child to view life through Lulu’s lens and see the “sunny side of the street” - positivity helps the lows life throws at us.
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