Sometimes children find it difficult to express their feelings publicly.

Sometimes their feelings of sadness are hard to express.

Keep a large book at home where they can draw their feelings that they would like to discuss.

When you have discussed the feelings and they have been addressed, it is always fun to rip out the page together, screw up the paper, throw it away celebrating that we have really resolved that problem!

This works well with children from preschool to year six. The dramatising of destroying the paper is good therapy making the child feel better.