Focus on the Family with Jim Daly How to Nurture Emotional Health in Your Child
Sep 18, 2025
Licensed clinical professional counselor Eliza Huie shares her expertise on nurturing emotional health in children. She emphasizes the importance of early emotional guidance, from labeling feelings to modeling emotions for infants. Eliza discusses teaching empathy and calming strategies for younger kids and highlights the significance of self-regulation and recognizing warning signs in teens. Her insights equip parents with practical tools to raise emotionally resilient and secure children.
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Rising Childhood Mental-Health Crisis
- Child mental-health problems have risen sharply with a 59% increase in a decade.
- One in three children will have an anxiety diagnosis by 18, showing a broad cultural shift.
Messages That Shape A Child's Heart
- Competing inputs shape kids: spiritual grounding versus anxiety-producing cultural messages.
- Parents must evaluate which messages flood their children's lives and increase truth and mentorship.
Label Emotions Early
- Start naming emotions with infants and toddlers to build their emotional vocabulary early.
- Use simple labels like "angry" or "upset" when you see behaviors so children learn emotion words.
