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14 results (expanded search) for "vocabulary"
Parenting
Building the Emotion Vocabulary
Teach your child five new emotion words each week to widen his emotional language.
Parenting
Feeling-Words Bank
Build your child's emotional vocabulary by introducing fresh feeling-words weekly.
Psychological
27 Emotions Map (Cowen-Keltner)
Search the 27-emotion list instead of basic 5 — discover self deeper.
Parenting
Language-Rich Environment
Aim for 21,000 words a day with your child — guarding against the "30-million-word gap."
Parenting
Read-Aloud Beyond Age Seven
Keep reading aloud to your child to age 12, even if he reads alone — benefits go beyond language.
Psychological
Emotion Granularity
Instead of "I feel bad", classify: "frustrated", "disappointed", "exhausted".
Social
Daily Emotion Wheel
Pick 3 emotions on a Plutchik wheel (level 2) you feel now — precise labeling = calm.
Parenting
Daily Fifteen Minutes of Reading
Read with your child fifteen minutes daily — cumulative impact on language and intelligence beats any curriculum.
Parenting
Expanding the Emotion Lexicon
Teach your child 50 feeling words (not just "sad": frustrated, hopeless, let-down, broken). Precision = regulation.
Parenting
Daily Read-Aloud
Read aloud to your child 15 min daily — even after he reads independently.
Social
Naming the Other's Feeling Precisely
Do not say "I know how you feel". Name the feeling with a precise word and verify it.
Social
Spot Your Own Alexithymia Pattern
When you reflexively say "I'm fine", pause and ask your body 3 questions before accepting the default answer.
Parenting
Feeling Mirror
Name your child's feeling precisely before you try to fix the situation.
Parenting
Modeling Emotional Regulation Out Loud
Make your emotional regulation visible and audible to your child — children learn regulation by watching, not by lecture.