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Feelings at Our Table

Three short lessons on helping a young child with feelings: give the feeling a name, place it on two simple scales, and calm the body before you talk it through.

For grown-ups, from what FeelingFriends teaches children at Spark & Anvil.

  1. Lesson 1Give it a name
  2. Lesson 2Two simple scales
  3. Lesson 3Calm the body first
At the table · a grown-up and a child, 4 to 8

Three questions on the way home

You'll need: nothing but the journey home.

  1. Ask: what was a fast feeling today, and a slow one?
  2. Ask: what was a nice feeling, and a hard one?
  3. Share one of your own feelings from the day, with its name.
  4. Stop when the child has had enough; three questions is plenty.

Print the guidebook (all lessons + the table activity) →