Use this simple wheel of emotions to help your kids learn to identify their feelings.

You can use this emotion wheel as a starting point with children, to help expand their emotive vocabulary.

Being able to recognize emotions is important. Kids who are able to identify what they’re feeling:

• Display fewer behavior problems
• Do better in school
• Are more empathetic and supportive of others
• Develop healthy coping skills and resilience
• Have a positive self-image
• Have positive and stable relationships with others
• Better mental health

Recognizing emotions comes naturally to a lot of children, but for some kids, it’s a big struggle. When that’s the case, they need to be taught how to identify their emotions.