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- Boost Your Kid’s Emotional Intelligence
- Teach Your Child About Their Body
- Encourage A Growth Mindset
- Teach Your Child to Accept Others – Even When They’Re Different
- Raise Your Kid to Be Kind, Thoughtful, and Giving
- Tackle Gender Stereotypes
- Inspire Your Kid to Make The Most of Life
- Videos For Tweens and Teens
Before you set your child up to watch one of these videos, you might want to watch the short video yourself firstto make sure it’s the right fit for your family. While I’m 100 percent comfortable with sharing these videos with my children and I have many friends and neighbors who have done so as well, every family is different so your mileage may v...
1. The Power of a Breath
This short film helps kids learn how to deal with their emotions. After several kids share how their emotions affect them and how they physically feel in those moments, they talk about what helps them to feel better.
2. How Mindfulness Empowers Us
Your child might have heard of mindfulness before, but they might not fully understand what it means. In this short animated story of two wolves fighting in our hearts, an expert explains how mindfulness allows us to see our thoughts and feelings as they are beginning, not after we’re feeling overwhelmed.
3. The Difference Between Empathy And Sympathy
In this short video, Dr. Brené Brown explains empathy with a powerful metaphor, plus how to practice true empathy. Beware that the video gives two brief examples of struggles that people might be dealing with – miscarriage and a failing marriage – so if that’s the first your child has heard of those situations, you may want to talk about that after the video. For a practical trick to boost your child’s empathy, I put together this guide for parents: Empathy Is Tough to Teach, But Here’s One T...
1. Consent for Young Kids and Tweens
Conversations about consent can’t wait until the teenage years. This video for kids gives an age-appropriate introduction to the idea of consent, and it’s perfect for preschoolers and grade-school-aged kids. Related: 5 Important Steps That Will Help Protect Your Child From Sexual Abuse
2. An Important Message About Body Image
Here, professional volleyball player Gabby Reece talks to her 12-year-old daughter about weight and how to have a healthy relationship with the scale. I
For a practical but powerful trick for encouraging a growth mindset in your kid, check out 9 Best Growth Mindset Posters That Will Inspire Your Kid to Keep Trying.
1. Us versus Them
In today’s world, the “us versus them” narrative is pervasive. In focusing on what divides us, we can lose sight of what we have in common. This Danish ad challenges that narrative with a simple demonstration.
2. How to Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes
This is a quick (and funny!) video to teach your child how to see a situation from another person’s perspective, especially when that other person may have a disability or mental health condition. If your family uses a broad definition of curse words, beware that the transcript includes “crap” and “what the heck.” After the video, here are a couple conversation starters you can use: 1. What’s something that’s easy for you to do but might not come easy to someone else? 2. What’s something you...
3. When Someone Acts Different
This video for kids starts out by talking about how we all have differences, including in how our brains work. Then it introduces what autism is and what that means.
After you wrap up here, head over to The Secret to Raising Your Kids to Be Kindto get my free printable that will help you raise kind kids.
1. Redrawing the Balance
In this short video, children were asked to draw a firefighter, surgeon, and a fighter pilot. The pictures they drew were eye-opening.
2. Picking Your Career
This animated video explores how gender stereotypes often get in the way of a child pursuing their passion as a career one day.
3. Women Give Advice To Their Future Daughters
This round-up of advice from women to their future daughters is perfect for mothers to watch with their own daughters.
4. What Society Does to Your Creativity
To read more about this short film, check out How Society Kills Your Creativity – In An Award Winning Pixar-Esque Short Film.
1. Consent and Tea
This short animation explains consent using a simple metaphor: tea. This went viral when it was first released because it communicates the concept of consent so perfectly. Beware that two versions of this video exist, and the one I’ve included below is the “clean” version without curse words.
2. Like a Girl
If you’ve noticed your tween or teen girl losing confidence as she gets older, this is the perfect video to watch together. But don’t assume this is just for girls – this is also a message every tween or teen boy needs to hear.
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- MAKE TIME AND SPACE FOR EMOTIONS. First, let’s make time and space for everyone’s feelings. Instead of turning up the music in the mini-van to mask the sound of your own sobbing or instead of short-circuiting an argument by handing your 12-year-old a screen to distract her.
- NAME THE EMOTION. Second, give the big emotion a name. If you can’t name it, chances are you can’t tame it. The Proverbs are a gold mine of advice for dealing with the messy underbelly of our humanity.
- GIVE FEELINGS AN OUTLET. Once you know what you’re dealing with, give the emotion an outlet. When I’m conducting long drawn-out hours of standardized testing with my homeschooled grandson and he starts to act discouraged, we run around the house seven times.
- BE MINDFUL OF YOUR OWN EMOTIONS. Start monitoring your own emotional responses. Madeleine L’Engle coined the term “tirage” to describe her own strong verbal reaction to anything that upset her.
Freeze the song and see what they come up with! Encourage them to use more than just their face. This gives kids some insight into body language. Videos for Emotions & Feelings. Enjoy these videos, including emotion games, read-alouds, and videos that help identify emotions, feelings, and moods.
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Apr 28, 2021 · You can help your child understand and regulate their emotions by: talking about emotions openly. putting a name on emotions. providing them with structure at home. Keep in mind that the way you ...
Our favorite is to crank up music and dance like nobody’s watching! Point out to your child that our bodies release endorphins when we exercise {they’ll love knowing a new, big word!} that make us feel good.