Managing Big Emotions

Understanding and Managing Big Emotions in Children Aged 0-5

This session aims to equip parents with the knowledge and tools to better understand and support their child's emotional awareness and development. The focus will be on:

• Nurturing Approach: Emphasising a nurturing approach to supporting big emotions in young children, such as anger and frustration. This involves recognizing and validating children's feelings and providing them with a safe space to express themselves.
  
  
• Child Development: Gaining insight into children's developing brains and understanding why they respond in certain ways. This includes learning about the stages of emotional development and how these impact behavior.
  
  
• Parental Response: Exploring effective strategies for parents to respond to their children when they are experiencing big emotions. This involves learning techniques to calm and comfort children, helping them to regulate their emotions and develop healthy coping mechanisms.

This session will help you to connect with your child and have more confidence in knowing how to respond during some of our most challenging times as parents. 

Dr Faye Poole is a qualified Educational and Child Psychologist from the UK and is also a Mum to a bouncy 2 year old.