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Feelings Versus Actions

META
Personal & Social Development›Self-Awareness|Ages 6—8|ID: mt_TU3BcLOgiV

Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away

Mastery Evidence

  • emotion regulation development research
  • Effects of Age and Gender in Emotion Regulation (PMC 2020)
  • expressive control to emotion regulation (PMC)

Assessment Prompt

“Does [child] understand that feeling angry, scared, or jealous doesn't mean they have to act on it immediately — that there's a gap between the feeling and what they choose to do next?”

Prerequisites2

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  • Naming Your Feelings hard

    Understanding that feelings and actions are separate requires first being able to name and identify what you are feeling

    • Vocabulary: self hard

      Noticing and naming feelings requires the basic vocabulary of self-awareness and reflection

    • Feeling of not understanding soft

      Naming what you are feeling is emotional comprehension monitoring — the universal habit of noticing what's happening inside applied to emotional experience

      • Asking for Help hard

        Noticing confusion and acting on it requires already knowing that asking for help is a valid response to being stuck

  • Vocabulary: self hard

    Understanding the feelings-actions separation requires vocabulary to distinguish and name each component

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