What are three techniques that older children might use to enhance their emotional self-regulation skills?
What will be an ideal response?
The textbook points out three emotional regulation strategies employed by older children:
a) Children will begin to regulate their own emotions more and rely less on others/adults to help them with this skill.
b) Children will rely more on mental strategies to control their emotional states.
c) Children more accurately match the strategies for regulating emotions with the particular setting in which the emotion occurs.
Excellent answers will list and give an example of all three of these strategies.
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