Naming Feelings
Feelings get smaller the moment you can name them
Free trail · EQ · ages 9–10 · 6 stations
Why Naming Helps
There is real science behind this: when you name a feeling, the calming part of your brain switches on. Flip every card.
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Naming a feeling moves it from the alarm part of your brain to the thinking part. The feeling shrinks — genuinely, measurably.
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Not just "angry" — irritated, annoyed, cross, furious. Knowing the size 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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Even the biggest feeling has a peak and then fades. It genuinely will not last forever, even when it feels like it will.
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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
There is real science behind this: when you name a feeling, the calming part of your brain switches on. Flip every card.
Putting a name to a feeling genuinely calms it down. Flip to find out why.
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How Big Is the Feeling?
Feelings come in sizes, and using the right-sized word helps enormously. Tap these from mildest to strongest.
Put these words in order from mildest to strongest.
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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 on one page, with an answer key at the bottom — 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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