Emotional regulation is interesting to me as it helps children understand how emotions work and it provides the appropriate skills to be able to manage them. It also decreases the amount of vulnerability children endure towards negative emotions as learning to regulate them helps children build more positive emotional experiences. Learning how to cope and manage negative emotions can help a child live a healthy emotional life as they react appropriately to situations they experience throughout life. Also, having emotional regulation and communication with parents also promotes positive relationships with caregivers and advanced social skills. For example, “Very young children who have cooperative, emotionally positive relationships with parents who explain the reasons for rule and prohibitions tend to become aware of standards of behaviors and learn to differentiate situations allowing for autonomy from those requiring compliance (Gross,
Emotional regulation is interesting to me as it helps children understand how emotions work and it provides the appropriate skills to be able to manage them. It also decreases the amount of vulnerability children endure towards negative emotions as learning to regulate them helps children build more positive emotional experiences. Learning how to cope and manage negative emotions can help a child live a healthy emotional life as they react appropriately to situations they experience throughout life. Also, having emotional regulation and communication with parents also promotes positive relationships with caregivers and advanced social skills. For example, “Very young children who have cooperative, emotionally positive relationships with parents who explain the reasons for rule and prohibitions tend to become aware of standards of behaviors and learn to differentiate situations allowing for autonomy from those requiring compliance (Gross,