Expressing your emotions in the family and not hurting the kids!

Author: Christina McMahon | Date: 10/05/2020

Children are exceptionally sensitive to family high emotions; the younger they are the more they are ’emotional sponges’. It is beneficial to children that parents know how to manage and express emotions in an appropriate manner. Parents need to have skills and strategies to defuse high emotion; they need to learn assertive skills; they may need to recognise when they are ‘dumping’ their stress on a family member and choose a different strategy. We all need to communicate what we are feeling; it is how we do it that either benefits all involved or ‘hurt’ those we love.

Courses are available so a parent can learn to manage and express emotions so we do not hurt the kids. Parents are children communication models; what you do is what children learn; so learn new skills and limit harmful conflict in the family.