Language for Behaviour and Emotions: A Practical Guide to Working with Children and Young People

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Barsalou, L. W., & Wiemer-Hastings, K. (2005). Situating abstract concepts. In D. Pecher (Ed.), Grounding cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thought (pp. 129–163). New York: Cambridge University Press. Substitution: It can substitute for a verbal message. For example, your facial expression often conveys a far more vivid message than words ever can. Emotional development theories include Bandura’s social learning theory, Bowlby’s attachment theory, Piaget’s stages of emotional development, Wallon’s stages of emotional development, and Vygotsky’s cognitive development stages.

Take this classic game further by incorporating emotions as part of the directions. For example, you may say, “Simon says to make a frustrated face.” This idea was derived from our article Is Emotional Intelligence Relevant for Kids? and is available in full from PlayBased Parenting. 2. Board games Wetherby A, Prizant B. Communication and symbolic behavior scales developmental profile - preliminary normed edition. Baltimore, Md: P. H. Brookes Pub.; 2001.Brown, G. L., Craig, A. B., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2015). Parent gender differences in emotion socialization behaviors vary by ethnicity and child gender. Parenting, 15(3), 135–157. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2015.1053312 Atkinson, A. P., Dittrich, W. H., Gemmell, A. J., & Young, A. W. (2004). Emotion perception from dynamic and static body expressions in point-light and full-light displays. Perception, 33(6), 717–746. https://doi.org/10.1068/p5096

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This shift in paradigm can be challenging for adults, especially because many of us have not had explicit instruction in the life skill of managing our own emotions. Cohen NJ. Language impairment and psychopathology in infants, children, and adolescents. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage; 2001.

Researchers have found a link between the amount of emotional language used by parents at home and children’s vocabulary. Reisland (2006) writes about how a father's use of emotional vocabulary supported his child’s development of an emotional vocabulary at around 2 years old. Barrett, L. F. (2006). Solving the emotion paradox: Categorization and the experience of emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(1), 20–46. Chaplin, T. M., Cole, P. M., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (2005). Parental socialization of emotion expression: Gender differences and relations to child adjustment. Emotion, 5(1), 80–88. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.80 Clore, G. L., & Ortony, A. (2008). Appraisal theories: How cognition shapes affect into emotion. In J. M. Haviland-Jones, M. Lewis, & L.Class poem: Work together on a class poem about how we deal with our feelings. You could act as scribe and start the children off with the lines: 'Dealing with your feelings can make you feel OK. / So share them, air them. Do it today.'