When Your Child Has Big Feelings
Your child is crying.
You say:
“Don’t cry.”
They’re angry.
“Why are you behaving like this?”
They’re scared.
“There’s nothing to be scared of.”
They’re frustrated.
“It’s not a big deal.”
And sometimes, despite the best intentions, we end up teaching children that difficult emotions are things to stop, hide, control or move past quickly.
But children aren’t born knowing what their emotions mean.
They don’t automatically know how to name what they’re feeling.
They don’t always know why they’re angry.
They may not understand that jealousy can sit underneath a tantrum.
They may not know how to say “I’m overwhelmed” when all they can do is cry.
And they certainly aren’t born knowing how to regulate intense emotions.
They learn these things through relationships, experiences, modelling and repeated opportunities to understand themselves.
Raising Emotionally Healthy Children is a psychology-informed workshop about helping children develop a healthier relationship with their emotions.
We’ll explore emotional awareness, expression, regulation, validation, boundaries, and the role parents and caregivers play in shaping how children learn to understand and respond to feelings.
This isn’t about raising a child who is always calm.
It’s not about preventing tantrums, sadness, anger or frustration.
And it’s not about saying yes to every emotion-driven behaviour.
It’s about helping children learn: “My feelings are allowed and I can learn how to handle them.”
Is this workshop for you?
This workshop may be helpful if you…
✓ Want your child to become more comfortable talking about their feelings.
✓ Find it difficult to know what to say when your child is crying, angry, scared or overwhelmed.
✓ Sometimes feel tempted to immediately stop or fix your child’s emotions.
✓ Want to understand the difference between validating a feeling and allowing every behaviour.
✓ Notice that your child struggles to name or explain what they’re feeling.
✓ Want to help your child develop healthier ways of expressing anger or frustration.
✓ Find yourself saying “calm down” but aren’t sure what to say instead.
✓ Want to support your child’s emotional regulation without expecting them to suppress their feelings.
✓ Feel unsure about when to comfort your child and when to hold a boundary.
✓ Want to understand how your own reactions can influence your child’s emotional experience.
✓ Want to create more emotionally open conversations at home.
✓ Worry that your child may be learning to hide difficult emotions.
✓ Want to help your child develop emotional vocabulary and self-awareness.
✓ Want to build a stronger emotional connection with your child.
✓ Want practical ways to respond to big feelings without becoming overwhelmed yourself.
Meet Your Facilitators
Akanksha Mehta
Founder, Mind Soul Bridge
Akanksha is a Counselling Psychology postgraduate (M.Sc, Christ University) with 600+ therapy sessions across EAP, private practice and relationship counselling. She works with individuals and couples around anxiety, stress, burnout, trauma and relationship concerns through an evidence-based, trauma-informed, integrative approach and has facilitated 100+ mental-wellbeing workshops in corporate and community settings.
Riddhima Nigam
Founder, Bekhauf Panchi
Riddhima is a Counselling Psychologist and the founder of Bekhauf Panchi by Riddhima. She works with adolescents and adults around emotional overwhelm, stress, self-doubt, relationship concerns, identity and life transitions through a human-centred, trauma-informed and integrative approach. Her work focuses on creating emotionally safe, collaborative spaces that help individuals understand their experiences, reconnect with their strengths and values and develop greater clarity and self-trust. She also works with adolescents around developmental, emotional, academic and social challenges.
What you’ll learn?
How Children Learn About Emotions
- Understand how children gradually develop emotional awareness, vocabulary and understanding through relationships and everyday experiences.
What Big Emotions Are Communicating
- Explore what may sit underneath crying, anger, frustration, fear, withdrawal or seemingly disproportionate reactions.
Validation Without Giving In
- Learn the difference between acknowledging a child’s emotional experience and accepting every behaviour that follows an emotion.
Helping Children Regulate, Not Suppress
- Explore how parents can support children in moving through difficult emotions rather than teaching them that uncomfortable feelings need to disappear immediately.
Building Emotional Safety at Home
- Understand how everyday interactions can create an environment where children feel safer expressing emotions, asking for help and being honest about difficult experiences.
What you’ll take away?
An Emotion Awareness Check-In
- Reflect on how your child currently identifies, expresses, and responds to different emotions.
An Emotional Vocabulary Tool
- Explore simple ways of helping children move beyond “happy,” “sad” and “angry” and develop a richer understanding of what they may be experiencing.
A “What’s Underneath?” Reflection
- Learn to look beyond behaviour and consider what emotion, need, situation or experience may be contributing to a child’s reaction.
Validation vs. Permission Framework
- Understand how to acknowledge feelings while still maintaining appropriate boundaries around behaviour.
A Big Emotion Response Guide
- Take away practical ways to respond when your child is overwhelmed, upset, frustrated, scared or angry.
Emotion-Friendly Conversation Prompts
- Use age-appropriate prompts to create more opportunities for children to talk about what they’re experiencing.
A Regulation Support Toolkit
- Explore ways caregivers can help children develop strategies for managing strong emotions over time.
Parent Reaction Reflection
- Notice how your own emotional responses may shape what your child learns about difficult feelings.
Lifetime Resources
- Resources to support your learning beyond the workshop
What happens during the 90 minutes?
1- Understand: Interactive teaching
- Explore children’s emotional development, emotional awareness, expression, regulation and the role of caregivers.
2- Notice: Guided self-reflection
- Reflect on how your child expresses emotions and how you typically respond when their feelings become intense.
3- Decode: Look beneath the behaviour
- Explore what may be underneath tantrums, anger, crying, withdrawal, frustration or other emotional reactions.
4- Practise: Respond to big feelings
- Explore practical ways to validate emotions, communicate with children, support regulation and maintain boundaries.
5- Take It With You: Your emotional connection plan
- Identify small, realistic changes you can make to create more opportunities for emotional connection at home.
6- Ask: Live Q&A
- Ask questions during and after the session.
Why this workshop is different?
Because “Just Calm Down” Isn’t an Emotional Skill.
This workshop is…
Not About Raising a Child Who Never Gets Upset
Emotional health doesn’t mean constant calm. Children need opportunities to experience and understand the full range of emotions.
Not About Eliminating Tantrums
The goal isn’t to make difficult emotions disappear. It’s to understand what children may be communicating and help them develop more effective ways of responding.
Not About Permissive Parenting
Validating a feeling doesn’t mean allowing every behaviour. Children can be deeply understood while still having boundaries.
Not About Being a Perfect Parent
Children don’t need perfectly regulated parents at every moment. They benefit from caregivers who can reflect, repair and keep learning.
Beyond “Name Your Feelings”
Emotional vocabulary is important, but emotional wellbeing also involves understanding, expressing, regulating, communicating and responding to emotions.
Psychology-Informed
We’ll explore emotional development, regulation, attachment, communication, validation, boundaries and parent–child relationships through a counselling psychology lens.
Practical & Reflective
You’ll leave with approaches you can use in everyday moments rather than simply learning about emotions in theory.
Frequently asked questions.
Do I need prior therapy experience?
- No. These sessions are for everyone, whether or not you’ve ever spoken to a therapist.
Will I have to share personal experiences?
- Never. Participation in discussion is always optional. You’re welcome to simply listen and participate privately.
Will the session be recorded?
- Yes. Recording will be available for a week after the workshop.
Can I ask questions?
- Yes. There will be a live Q&A, and you can ask questions through the chat.
Will I receive resources afterward?
- Yes. Worksheets and a recommended resource list will be shared on WhatsApp after the session.
Can beginners attend?
- Absolutely. No background in psychology is needed.
Is there an age requirement?
- Yes. This workshop is for Parents and Caregivers of Children.
How do I get the joining link?
- Your Google Meet link and reminders will be sent to you on WhatsApp after you register.
Important Information
Before you register
- This is a psychoeducational workshop. It is not a substitute for psychotherapy or crisis support.
- Participation in discussion is always optional.
- You do not have to disclose anything personal during the session.
- Please join from a quiet, private space where possible.
- Worksheets and resources will be shared on WhatsApp after the session.
- Refund/cancellation policy:
We understand that plans can change. If you need to cancel your registration, you may request a full refund up to 24 hours before the workshop begins.
For cancellations made less than 24 hours before the workshop, or after the workshop has started, no refund will be provided.
To request a refund, please contact us at least 24 hours before the scheduled start time of the workshop.
If you are in distress or crisis, you can contact:
- Tele-MANAS: 1800-89-14416 | 14416
- iCall (TISS): 9152987821