Everyday Feels
Approachable emotional literacy for the whole family.
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A Lot or a Little?
The parents' guide to what's in this podcast.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Everyday Feels is a gentle guide to emotions for children that affirms their experiences of both positive and negative feelings. Led by host Nakita Simpson, author of A Book About Feelings for Kids, and pediatric psychologist, Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart, each episode explores a single emotion or combination of emotions and the messages those feelings are sending us. Intentional pauses in the structure of each episode allow for kid listeners to reflect and share with their grown ups about these feelings and, at the end, Dr. Lockhart shares tools and strategies for engaging with those feelings further.
What’s It About?
Episodes of EVERYDAY FEELS are each built around a recording of a kid listener sharing the memory of an impactful emotional experience. The co hosts talk through what challenges and strategies the featured child used in their story and make connections to their own lives. Next, listeners are prompted to reflect on their own experiences with those feelings. The hosts often offer several synonyms for the feeling to help listeners deepen their understanding of the emotion. Each episode ends with direct suggestions from Dr. Lockhart for dealing with the emotion discussed in the episode.
Is It Any Good?
Gentle, engaging, and still deeply practical, this offering from A Kids Co breaks down feelings with a care and intentionality that will leave listeners with both a deeper understanding of their feelings and greater compassion for themselves. While many shows that attempt to promote emotional literacy emphasize coping skills for moving on from feelings like fear and anger as quickly as possible, Everyday Feels explains the reason we experience these emotions. Dr. Lockhart expertly breaks down the neuroscience at play for a kid audience and makes suggestions to help listeners work with their emotions, rather than trying to minimize or run away from them. This refreshing and deeply empowering approach will leave families with lots to talk about and, lucky for them, the show includes built in discussion breaks!
With beautiful sound design and expert hosts, Everyday Feels is a standout offering for social emotional learning. It's also a gift for parents hoping to start conversations about challenging emotions that are impacting their kids' lives, with episodes on social anxiety, overwhelm, and confidence, among others.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how they have dealt with the emotions discussed in Everyday Feels. What strategies for coping with difficult emotions have they found? What ways of cultivating positive emotions have worked for them?
What does it mean to you when Dr. Lockhart says that our feelings are messages? Can you think of a time that you understood how a feeling you had was sending you an important message?
What have been the biggest feelings you have been experiencing today? What did you do to respond to them?
Podcast Details
- Release date: September 30, 2021
- Genre: Social Emotional Learning
- Average Run Time: 15 minutes
- Website: https://akidsco.com/pages/everyday-feels
- Hosts: Nakita Simpson, Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart
- Publisher: A Kids Company About
- Pricing structure: Paid, Free (Episodes are free. Ad-free listening and bonus content with subscription for $3.99/mo or $39.99/yr.)
- Topics: Friendship
- Last updated: December 21, 2022
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