5 ways to help kids manage their emotions without feeling unheard

Indeed, children are very expressive when it comes to their emotions. Children require help in identifying their emotions and in learning how to use them appropriately. Emotional intelligence is the ability that determines whether your child will function well across the board: academically, socially, and emotionally. Teaching emotional intelligence and effective ways to deal with emotions has equal importance as teaching any discipline, especially at an early age. It helps children to understand their emotions and manage them, which becomes a strong foundation for happy and successful relationships and good decisions throughout life.

Sonali Sarkar, Child Nutritionist & Child Care expert says, “Teaching kids to identify, understand, and express their feelings will give them tools for life. These are the tools that will help them settle disagreements peacefully, build relationships based on empathy, and bounce back from disappointments with resilience.”
Big feelings are not something that children are just born knowing how to work with-it is a learned behavior, just like reading or math. As parents, teachers, and caregivers, we are responsible for modeling healthy emotional behaviors and creating safe places where children can explore and express feelings without fear of ridicule or shame. The normal everyday events-a lost toy, a difficult friendship, or a bedtime book-can become opportunities to teach emotional awareness and self-regulation.


According to Pritam Kumar Agrawal, Founder, Hello Kids, “Emotional literacy is not a one-time lesson; it is a lifelong process of learning. By embedding it into routines, educators and parents can raise such children into a competence-ready, emotionally resilient individual with the capacity to thrive in this complex world.”


A balanced diet is important for physical growth and stabilization of mood and emotional behavior. Brain development and emotional well-being are impacted by foods rich in nutrients.

When children have predictable daily routines, they feel that they can exercise some measure of control over what is going on. This helps them manage emotional outbursts and lessens anxiety.


Reinforcing this through praise for the child's expressed emotion in a healthy manner builds up his confidence and teaches him that expressing emotion is something one should not be ashamed or embarrassed about-it is something to be proud of.

Using tools such as emotion charts or feeling wheels, it introduces students to emotional vocabulary and helps these students express better their fears and communicate less frustration and misbehaviors.


Children express themselves via stories and play. They adapt well into interacting with emotions through storytelling and play incorporation truly develop the child's empathetic and socially intelligent self.
In nurturing emotional intelligence from an early age, we are not just bringing up emotionally healthy individuals; we are bringing up compassionate, confident, self-aware human beings who will carry these foundational life skills into their adulthood. In an ever-emotional competence-respected world, this just may be the biggest lesson we will impart.