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The Hard Feeling
You're angry and want to yell and hit — act on the anger, or find somewhere safe to feel it?
The feeling is real. What you do with it is still up to you.
Young children — ages 4 to 8 — who are learning that big feelings are real, and that what you do with them is a choice. Also for caregivers and educators working with children who escalate quickly or struggle to name what is happening inside them before it comes out.
The Name It First Experience
Something happened and now the anger is everywhere — in your chest, your hands, the back of your throat. You want to yell. You want to push. You want the feeling to get out some way. In The Hard Feeling, you choose what happens next. Every path leads somewhere different. This is a story for children who are learning that feeling angry is not the same as doing something they'll regret — and that the bravest thing is to feel a hard feeling without letting it run the whole moment. The output is your Hard Feeling Page — the feeling you had, the choice you made, and what happened after.
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Sample questions
- What do you think the character is feeling in their body when the anger is everywhere?
- What would YOU do when a big feeling comes — and why?
- What is a safe place you go or a safe thing you do when you have a hard feeling?
Research basis
Grounded in Gross (1998) emotion regulation research applied to early childhood / Denham (1998) emotional development and social competence / CASEL social-emotional learning on emotional identification and response practice.
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