Our Lady Star of the Sea Ocean Grove
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13-29 John Dory Drive
Ocean Grove VIC 3226
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Email: secretary@staroceangrove.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 03 5255 4308

Student Wellbeing

How children's emotions develop and change.

Children change in many ways during their primary school years. As well as growing physically, children develop socially, emotionally and cognitively.

Children's responses to the different feelings they experience every day have a major impact on their choices, their behaviour, and how well they cope and enjoy life. Emotional development involves learning what feelings and emotions are, understanding how and why they happen, recognising one’s own feelings and those of others, and developing effective ways of managing them. As children grow and are exposed to different situations their emotional lives also become more complex. Developing skills for managing a range of emotions is therefore very important for their emotional wellbeing.

Parents and carers have an important role to play in supporting children's emotional development. They do this through responding effectively to children's emotions, through providing examples of how they manage feelings, and through talking with children about feelings and how to manage them. In similar ways, our school staff at Our Lady Star of the Sea provide important support for children's emotional development.