Exploring Feelings with Children in China

This week I have been so excited to open a parcel containing six copies of 'Games and Activities for Exploring Feelings with Children', a book I loved writing a couple of years ago for Jessica Kingsley Publishers, that has been published for the first time in Simplified Chinese by Nanjing Normal University Press. 

I guess it proves that educators and parents the world over want to enable children to name feelings and develop a wider emotional vocabulary so they can talk about their feelings more accurately. I really believe that equipping children to make sense of their emotions gives them more control and wider choice over how they respond. 

Understanding how your emotions work, what ‘triggers’ anger, sadness, happiness and all the other feelings that human’s experience, encourages self-regulation and choices about how you respond and behave. I think that this makes children better able to cope with the ups and downs of life as they have the tools to speak out, rather than act out, which has got to be a good thing, wherever you live in the world.