Personal & Social Development
Self-Awareness
Meta
6–8 yrs
Feelings Versus Actions
情感与行为
Description
Understand that feelings and actions are separate — you can feel something strongly without having to act on it straight away
Mastery Evidence
- emotion regulation development research
- Effects of Age and Gender in Emotion Regulation (PMC 2020)
- expressive control to emotion regulation (PMC)
Assessment Prompt
Does your child understand that feeling angry, scared, or jealous doesn't mean they have to act on it immediately — that there's a gap between the feeling and what they choose to do next?
