How to regulate children’s unstable emotions?

Emotional instability is usually manifested as being easily excited, easily irritable, sometimes happy and sometimes easily angry. It is usually a normal phenomenon for adolescent children to have emotional instability. At this time, parents will feel a headache. So what should they do when their children are emotionally unstable? The following is the relevant content found by the editor.

1. Establish necessary daily routines for children. Adults should help children arrange a safe, predictable, and child-friendly daily routine, and consider activities that alternate between static and dynamic, lively, and diverse. Adults should attract children with rich and interesting life content, so that children are happy to carry out each activity on time. Be careful not to break the routine easily, so that children know what to do and when, and cannot do whatever they want. Children who have a regular life are more likely to maintain stable emotions.

2. Create a peaceful and harmonious family atmosphere for children. Adults talk to each other in a pleasant and soft voice at home, respect each other and live in harmony. Emotions are easily affected by the environment, and a good and harmonious family environment is conducive to the formation of more stable emotions in children.

3. Set an example and influence your children with positive and stable emotions. Adults should control their emotions in front of children and not let their mood swings affect their children.

4. Overcome children’s willfulness and eliminate negative emotions. A willful child is extremely emotionally unstable; he will smile happily if others agree with him, but he will lose his temper and cry if things don't go his way. Adults should correct children's willfulness with a calm attitude and flexible methods. For example, take temporary avoidance approach, ignore the child's crying, and use interesting things to attract his attention.

In fact, since children are young, it is normal for them to sometimes have some temper tantrums or small emotions. However, parents should set an example and not over-indulge their children or lose their temper with them. This will increase the children's rebellious psychology and will be detrimental to their growth. Therefore, early education is very important.