Parents, your students have a lot of emotions but they may not be sure of what to do with them.
Talking Points:
- Students need to process every emotion- fear, love, hatred and annoyance. Parents can be helpful because they have more experience in dealing with them.
- The temptation is to stuff emotions and try to ignore them but eventually you explode because it gets to be too much.
- Students need to learn how to analyze and understand what they’re feeling and why so they know how to respond to them in a healthy way.
Discussion Questions:
- Initial reactions to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- Parents and students: Share the last time you felt a strong emotion about something. Why did that situation get you so amped up?
- When you’re emotional, what is your typical response to it? How has that response helped and hurt you?
- Parents and students: Share a time you blew up at someone by mistake. Why did that happen?
- Why is it so tempting to stuff emotions rather than dealing with them? If you are a stuffer, why do you choose to stuff?
- In your own words, what are the benefits to understanding your emotions and learning how to express them in a productive way?
- Is there a step you need to take based on today’s topic?
