Emotional self-expression

Verbal emotional expression includes seven basic emotions, including happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness, frustration, and disgust. Other emotion words, such as excited, hurt, or annoyed represent different intensity levels of the basic seven emotions. So while rage would reflect the most intense degree of anger, annoyed would represent a much less intense level.
Stifling verbal expression of emotion makes it more challenging for a child to self-regulate, or manage her behavior. Consider thie child who is scared of dogs. Being told not to be scared doesn't remove the fear even though most dogs are harmless. What does remove the fear is an adult who hears that statement and patiently guides the child toward a greater comfort level by introducing a dog slowly, modelling a lack of fear, and allowing the child to progress at her own rate, perhaps watching from a distance, then approaching the dog, then patting the dog on the back (a dog's back has no teeth!), and so on. This lucky child has a loving adult who allowed the expression of fear and then helped the child conquer it. The child who is simply told not to be scared, does not conquer her fear. She just learns to suppress it as much as possible in front of that adult. Typically, though, the next time the child is near a dog, the nonverbal signs of fear will be very evident even though the child may not say "I'm scared."
For the first six months, crying is an infant's way of saying "help me" and the adult's job is to help!
Her practice throughout life has primed her to express her emotions as an adult, understand how to cope with her emotions, and to be comfortable with others' emotions as well.
When children throw a temper tantrum, it's because they're mad and don't know another way to express it. How you react to a tantrum determines whether and how well a child will learn alternatives.
The learning is simple, calm and neutral- you're both helping the child understand which feelings she's experiencing and modeling how to talk about those feelings. The final step is to help her learn what to do with these emotions.
acknowledge their feelings without trying to talk the child out of it. also teach them how to appropriately manage these feelings.
His anger and jealousy didn't get him in trouble. In fact, expressing his anger openly was validated by his father's reply. His anger began to dissipate and he joyfuly hugged his father. Acknowleging feelings is the best way to help a child manage them. Trying to ignore or erase the child's feeling in hopes that it will go away almost never works.
It's hard to know your child is hurting, scared, or something else because that can create intense feelings in you. So, brace yourself so that you can be a good listener. And then, talk with your partner, a best friend, or someone else about the emotions you're having.
"I feel xxx because xxx"
In other words, don't give the child attention until she completes the tantrum. (to teach her how to express her emtions appropriately)
even when angry, kids need to be respectful and appropriate.
allow the child to experience the emotion (e.g. sadness) and express it openly. that will help dissipate the sadness.
Emotions are real and should be respected. Remember, expressing emotions does not mean that someone is emotional; in fact, the more someone expresses emtionas verbaly, the less his emtions churn inside of him only to burst out later in volcanic fashion.