Every game and activity is a chance to learn emotion regulation.
Infants and young children cannot regulate their emotions on their own , they need loving adults in their lives to help them immediately regulate their emotions and behaviors and learn skills to do so independently. With practice and support, young children can learn skills that will help them self-regulate.
What is emotion regulation in child development?
Emotion regulation is the ability to monitor and modulate which emotions one has, when you have them, and how you experience and express them . Learning to self-regulate is a key milestone in child development – whose foundations are laid in the earliest years of life.