5 Tips to Develop Children's Emotions

To develop the emotions in children, the parents should have the attitude that support for parents is a good model for children for exemplary behavior. Children will protest if a parent demands a certain attitude, but the parent does not show what has been requested on the child.

Tips to train and develop children's emotions are:

1. Realize children's emotions
   Nurture empathy in parents so that we can feel what is perceived by others. Thus we will actually realize the emotions felt by the child as a child and not the emotions that we expect. Concern and awareness of children's emotions will make the child feel understood and accepted. If parents can implement this point it will become a basis of the willingness of children to also want to understand what is expected by their parents because of feelings of calm and comfort they get from their parents.
2. Recognizing emotion as an opportunity for closeness and educate
   By the time children feel sad, angry and afraid of the very first thing they need is parents. By acknowledging and recognizing the emotions the child then the child will feel calm and the role of parents increasingly felt by anak.Usahakan do not ignore the negative feelings that children will gradually disappear as well. The new negative feelings would disappear if the child can talk about their emotions honestly. Recognition of emotion as early as possible would be healthy before they become crises.
3. Listening with empathy and affirming feelings
   Listen and give expression to emphatically will make children understand that parents pay attention to his concerns as openly acknowledged. Expressions of empathy for the parents many starts when children are still infants. The way parents perceive, react when a child wetting the bed or hunger, and thirst is an effort of parents to indicate the presence of empathy, which can foster emotional closeness. As soon as children grow older, parents need to take time to listen to complaints from children and help provide the name of the emotions they felt that the child feels understood emotional.
4. Helping children to name the emotion with words
   The more clearly we use a lot of names that describe the perceived emotional content of children as tense, upset, anxious, angry, sad, and scared the kids would be better to understand his own feelings that will be able to describe it verbally and not just non-verbal. We will better understand if a child suddenly reveal the words "I'm upset with the A, because he took my favorite cake without asking"
5. Set limits while helping children solve problems
   Once we are willing to listen and help the child to name and understand his emotions then the next is to assist children in solving problems based on the norms and constraints in its environment. Help your child to set goals to be achieved and choose one of the most possible solution.