Naming Feelings
Naming a feeling exactly often makes it easier to handle
Free trail · EQ · ages 9–10 · 6 stations
Why Naming Helps
When you name a feeling, the thinking part of your brain gets a chance to join in. Flip every card.
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Naming a feeling can help your thinking brain catch up, so it often feels easier to handle.
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Not just "angry" — irritated, annoyed, cross, furious. Finding the exact word helps you pick the right response.
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Excited AND nervous about a school trip. Proud AND sad when a friend moves away. Mixed feelings are completely normal.
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Big feelings usually rise and ease, but how long is different for everyone. If one stays heavy, tell someone you trust.
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Inside the app
The station above is the real thing — and it is one of 6. Inside the app your child plays the whole trail — every station is something they touch, drag and try, each one earns a checkmark, finishing the trail awards an Explorer badge, and the Practice Zone builds a fresh set of questions every visit. Progress is saved to their player, so they can stop and pick it up later.
What your child does, station by station
Learning mode has no timers, no scores and no wrong answers — every station is something the child touches and moves. This trail is one of the free ones, so it opens on any account.
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Why Naming Helps
Flip cards
When you name a feeling, the thinking part of your brain gets a chance to join in. Flip every card.
Putting a name to a feeling can help you handle it. Flip to find out why.
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From Feeling to Words
Step ordering
There are many words for feelings — annoyed, hurt, let down, cross — and the exact one helps. Tap these steps in order.
Put these steps in order, from noticing a feeling to choosing what to do.
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Where Feelings Live
Matching pairs
Your body is a feelings detector. Match each signal to what it often means!
Match each body signal to the feeling it usually means.
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Mixed Feelings
Try it
Feeling two things at once is completely normal. Naming both is what stops it feeling confusing.
Two feelings at once is normal — and confusing until you name both.
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Feeling or Action?
Sorting baskets
This distinction matters enormously: feelings just arrive, but actions are chosen. You are never in trouble for a feeling.
Feelings happen to you. Actions are what you choose to do.
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Practice Zone
Practice Zone
Ten questions on this topic — a proper practice set, fresh every time.
Ten questions on this topic. New ones every time you come back.
Free printable worksheet
Ten questions from this topic, with an answer key below the questions that folds under before the sheet goes to a child — a PDF you can print for homework, a car journey or a classroom. No account needed and nothing to sign up for. The Practice Zone in the app builds a fresh set every visit; this is a fixed set you can hold.
More EQ for ages 9–10
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