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families that interact with a child about emotions and view emotional instances as
teaching opportunities, as follows (p. 48-49):
...helping the child to verbally label the emotions being felt, showing respect for
the child‘s experience of this emotion (i.e., accepting the emotion), when the child
is upset, the parent talking to the child, intervening in situations that caused the
emotion, at times comforting the child during the emotion, teaching the child
appropriate rules for expressing the emotion, educating the child about the nature
of the emotion, teaching the child strategies for dealing with the emotion, and for
soothing the intense levels of the emotion.
According to Denham‘s (1998) model, these practices can foster children‘s emotional
competence. By showing respect for the children‘s emotional experiences, comforting
children during expressions of emotions, and soothing intense levels of emotions, for
instance, emotion-coaching families model emotional expressions for children. By
talking to children when upset and intervening in situations causing emotions, emotion-
coaching families react to children‘s emotional expressions. By helping children to
verbally label their emotions, teaching children appropriate rules for expressing emotions,
educating children about the nature of emotions, and teaching children strategies for
dealing with emotions, emotion-coaching families coach children‘s emotions. These
practices all contribute to children‘s understanding of emotions, emotional expressions,
and emotion regulation, which in turn contribute to children‘s social competence
(Denham, 1998).
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