Understanding your child’s mood swings
Just like adults, children experience complex feelings. They get angry, sad, excited, nervous, stressed, embarrassed, happy and jealous. However, they do not have the ability to express their emotions or explain why they feel that way, and thus express their feelings through facial expressions, tone of voice, behavior and body language.
An important part of being a parent is helping your children deal with their feelings, empathize with others, as well as problem solving and finding solutions. So much of childhood is happening online these days, children often mask their emotions and levels of distress; thus making it harder for parents to know when their children are struggling to cope with their feelings, experiencing anxiety or mental health problems.
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The written and spoken speaking style, use of emojis in everyday text messaging, tone of voice, volume and pace of speech, all contribute to expressing themselves. They may seem innocuous, but these cues can help identify a child who might be struggling with their mental health and experiencing depression, anxiety, suicidal feelings, or self-harm. Or as the no-drama discipline advocated by Dr. Dan Seigel and Dr. Tina Payne says “connect and then redirect”.
This is where Bosco app can help, an AI-powered parenting app that predicts and prevents threats to children by analyzing their voice and determining their mood. Bosco’s state-of-the-art technology helps parents to be more emotionally attuned by helping them notice and better understand their children’s cues as signals to respond to their specific needs. With the Bosco app, you stay in the know about what’s happening online and on their phones, while still giving them the freedom and privacy they need to thrive.
Each child is unique and requires different levels of support and intervention depending on their identified mental needs. Our role, as adults and parents, is to provide a safe space for children to express how they are feeling and validate their emotions, even if you don’t understand or agree with a given situation. So download the Bosco app today to get alerts on your child’s mood right when your help is needed.
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