Teaching your child to recognize and manage their emotions

Emotions are part of life from a young age: joy, anger, fear, sadness... They can sometimes be intense and unsettling, for children but also for their parents. Knowing how to put words to them, learning to welcome and express them calmly is an essential step in emotional development.

But how do you support a child in this discovery? Here are some keys and resources to progress step by step.

1. Welcome emotions without judgment

The first step is to show the child that they have the right to feel and to help them put words to it. Rather than denying or minimizing, saying "I see you're angry" or "you seem sad" helps them verbalize their feelings and take ownership of them.

2. Use stories and familiar characters

Stories and characters allow children to identify and more easily understand their own emotions.

On Tikino, several contents have been designed to help children explore this theme gently:

• 🎵 Emotions in music: It is sometimes difficult for a child to understand and express what they feel... but the musical thrill, it does not deceive. This three-chapter guide uses masterpieces of classical music to teach children to identify their emotions and highlight the close link between music and emotions. This content is included with the purchase of the projector.

• 🐻 Petit Ours Brun: with his little everyday adventures, he experiences all sorts of emotions similar to those of children.

• 💜 Fuzzy Friends: in English With a lot of humor, these two adaptations of children's books highlight the small daily conflicts well known to children and the emotions that accompany them.

These contents are specially selected to be suitable for the youngest, with soft colors, a calming rhythm, and situations close to their daily life to allow them to identify themselves.

🎬 Click here to find our selection of stories about emotions

3. Provide concrete tools for regulation

Beyond recognition, children need strategies to calm down and manage strong emotions.

• Breathe deeply as if inflating a balloon,

• Draw what you feel,

• Or create a "calm box" with comforting objects (plush toy, book, picture, scent).

👉 With Tikino, incorporating a soothing story into quiet times can also be a good way to help them regulate themselves.





4. Rely on complementary resources

Many tools can enrich this discovery and help you in your discussions with your children:

• 🧸 Our favorite Pipouette, the emotion doll, which helps children recognize and name their feelings thanks to its interchangeable expressions.



• 📚 Adapted books like The Color Monster by Anna Llenas, or Gaston's Emotions by Aurélie Chien Chow Chine with the emotion wheel, offer other visual ways to appropriate emotions and practical advice for regulating them, at a child's level.

Learning about emotions is a journey that is built day by day, through exchange and kindness. With adapted tools – stories, music, games, books – children gradually learn to recognize what they feel and to share it.

👉 With Tikino, you have a catalog designed to accompany this stage gently, while creating beautiful shared family moments.