Children Boosting Wellbeing & Resilience
We like and we are adapting this RULER tool to help children develop their own well-being and resilience and to help other children and friends do the same. We are doing this in Zambia as part of our Super Better Children in Zambia programme.
You may think that emotions are soft things we need to ‘control’ – some people will have heard the idea of trying to ‘get on top of our emotions’ as if they are a bad thing. In fact, emotions are central to our lives and what we feel is likely to guide our actions more strongly than what we know. Emotions affect our:
- Attention, memory, and learning
- Decision making
- Creativity
- Mental and physical wellbeing
- Ability to form and maintain positive relationships; and
- Academic and workplace performance
- Recognise what you feel and emotions in others too
- Understand what you feel and why (causes and consequences of emotions)
- Label the emotions as closely and in as much detail as possible.
- Express how you feel according to social norms. And context e.g.– saying this out loud and then to others if this feels good
- Regulating emotions with helpful strategies
We like and we are adapting this RULER tool to help children develop their own wellbeing and resilience and to help other children and friends do the same. We are doing this in Zambia as part of our SuperBetter Children in Zambia programme.
You may think that emotions are soft things we need to ‘control’ – some people will have heard the idea of trying to ‘get on top of our emotions’ as if they are a bad thing. In fact, emotions are central to our lives and what we feel is likely to guide our actions more strongly than what we know. Emotions affect our:
- Attention, memory, and learning
- Decision making
- Creativity
- Mental and physical wellbeing
- Ability to form and maintain positive relationships; and
- Academic and workplace performance
- Recognise what you feel and emotions in others too
- Understand what you feel and why (causes and consequences of emotions)
- Label the emotions as closely and in as much detail as possible.
- Express how you feel according to social norms. And context e.g.– saying this out loud and then to others if this feels good
- Regulating emotions with helpful strategies
Take a look at the work we are doing in Zambia.