Deeply feeling kids

Being a kid who feels things deeply can be challenging. Here's how to help your child manage their big feelings in ways that also teach them coping skills.

Especially if you're a deeply feeling adult.

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Have a Deeply Feeling Kid who struggles to articulate their emotions? This therapist-approved hack from Dr. Becky Kennedy will help get them to open up—and it's a total parenting game-changer.

Does your child struggle with self-control? Emotional dysregulation in children is linked to behavioral disorders like Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and can put a child at risk of developing further emotional disorders​. Help teach your kids how to understand their feelings & emotions and how to control their behaviors. Our Complete Parenting Guide Provides 5 Easy Self-Regulation Strategies for Kids with facts every parent should know for their toddler's mental and emotional health.

If your child escalates quickly, struggles to calm down, and hates talking about their feelings… there’s nothing wrong with them. And there’s nothing wrong with you. Your kid is probably a Deeply Feeling Kid. In this week’s episode, Dr. Becky hears from three parents of DFKs and explains why these kids need a different approach—and what that approach looks like. Click through to listen!

If your kid blames others for their feelings, let me start off by saying, there is nothing wrong with your kid and there is nothing wrong with you. This...

Written by guest blogger Robyn Shulman of Ed News Daily With the ever-growing focus on the social, emotional, and developmental needs of our students, there is no better time than now to highlight the gifts of our introverted students. There […]

Some of the most frustrating moments in my interactions with my son are those moments when his behavior is completely out of control. No matter what I say or do, nothing seems to really get

Deeply feeling kids constantly worry about making mistakes. Many of them resort to avoiding what worries them, and when they can't, they burst into meltdowns. #sensitivelife #highlysensitivepeople #whereyouarenow #big feelings #neurodiversity #therapygames #emotional regulation #coregulation #love #mom #momstress #ASD #ADHD #momlife ##gentleparenting #positiveparenting #parentingtips#parentingadvice #positivediscipline

We recently caught up with the millennial parenting expert and child psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy to talk about a group of highly sensitive children she dubs “deeply feeling kids” or DFKs. Here’s how you know that you have one of these DFKs and how to best support them.

As much as we love our kids, as parents, we never wholeheartedly await the two-week Christmas break. If you are like me, you dread being at home with the kids for two weeks. If you also have a deep-feeling child who gets easily overstimulated and has a hard time with transitions, it’s almost twice as hard. #deeplyfeelingchild #deeplyfeelingkid #sensitivechild #parenting #parentingtips #parentingadvice

Parenting a strong-willed child is not for the faint of heart. We have 10 effective tips on parenting a strong-willed child that will help create a harmonious home.

Sometimes we need to focus on the important stuff and it doesn't have to be complicated at all! Here are 10 simple ways to make a child feel loved

Dr. Becky Kennedy | Parenting on Instagram: "Some kids feel things deeper, more intensely, and for longer than other kids. I call these kids Deeply Feeling Kids and here’s what I’ve learned from years of experience as a psychologist working with families: These kids need a different parenting approach. We have to get close but not too close so we don’t activate their sense of threat, we have to see their goodness under their bad behaviors, and we must put up firm boundaries so they don’t…

Jess | Formerly Our Mama Village on Instagram: "➡️ Tag a parent of a strong-willed child below! Just the other night, my strong-willed (deeply sensitive) child was struggling. She had a really long overstimulating day, and she hit me at bedtime. Other people might see her hitting me as a sign that she needs more punishment. But, here's what I know to be true: When she is so dysregulated that she hits me, she is showing me she has lost control of her body. She doesn't need more punishments; s

Sometimes the best way to be there for our children is to give them the freedom to cry.

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