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Emotional Health Check-Ins

Why This is Important

Sometimes, asking your child, How are you?, does not give insight into his or her actual emotional well-being. Checking in using one of the activities below can give you a lot more information about how your child is truly doing.

Quick Activity

Feelings 1-10

Have your child rank his or her mood on a scale from 1-10, with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best.

More Activities and Games

Weather Forecast

Have your child compare his or her current mood to a type of weather.

Pop Culture

Have your child compare his or her current mood to a popular song, movie, TV show, or emoji.

Rose, Bud, and Thorn

Discuss with your child a rose (something good that has happened), a bud (something he or she is looking forward to), and a thorn (something that has been hard or difficult).