Emotions Help Center

In the past, we have discussed the importance of helping young people to name and understand their emotions using the Super Simple Feelings Management Technique. We have also discussed the ...

The first step in helping kids (or anyone for that matter) to deal with and process the difficult emotions in their lives is to help them understand and name emotions ...

Feelings pong is a fun game to play and easy to set up - all you need is a table some cups and ping-pong ball. It is another great activity ...

Many of the resources and articles you see here on Hope 4 Hurting Kids include ideas and activities for teaching kids to better understand and deal with the difficult emotions ...

The Feelings Parking Lot is a great tool to use with kids to both identify the feelings they are experiencing and to discuss different coping mechanisms that can help with ...

This miniature book about feelings for kids is called "My Book About Feelings" and comes to us from Scholastic.com.  That’s right, the people known for school book fairs and those ...

Emotions Jenga is a fun game you can play with kids to teach them about emotions. When children have a better emotional vocabulary, they are better equipped to deal with ...

A Scream Box is a fun and effective way to vent some of those intense emotions that build up inside like anger, fear and stress. While breathing, physical activity and ...

If you've lived with, or been around, any elementary aged children at any point in the last year or so, you are likely familiar with the concept of the bottle flip ...

In this TED talk from Kelly McGonigal asks whether it is stress itself or how we think about stress that is harmful to our bodies. As you listen to this ...

One of the best ways to help kids deal with difficult emotions when they come up is to prepare them for that time by building their emotional intelligence ahead of ...

After a brief hiatus, Weekend Reading makes its triumphant return to Hope 4 Hurting Kids with an interesting theory - Increased use of social media leaves teens and kids (and ...

I am a Certified Public Accountant by trade. I tell people that accounting is what I do in my spare time. I don’t know that I would call myself your ...

Just Breathe is an awesome short film from Julie Bayer Salzman & Josh Salzman that offers a kids' perspective on anger and big emotions and how to deal with them. They ...

The word “peanuts” has become something of a “dirty word” for people who work with kids. In this article, we’re going to talk about how a simple peanut based exercise ...

In ministering to children from disrupted homes, we stress the need to empathize with what the kids are going through – not sympathize! This great video is one of the ...

Christmas is such a special time for those of us who love the Lord. It is a time to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Unfortunately it has also become ...

Children dealing with loss and trauma are generally dealing with emotions they have never felt before. Alternatively, they are dealing with an intensity of emotions they have never felt before ...