THOSE SAD, ANGRY AND HAPPY FACES. WHICH ONE IS YOU?

Look what I found in Poundland. Only £1. You could do a lot with these.

Assorted colourful face stickers. Have you ever had a feeling of mix emotions running high in a very short period of time?

It took me a while to sort them out. There are more happy faces than sad ones.

This is me smiling like the pink little sticker :) As long as I am smiling, everyone is smiling :) :) :) I hope my own contagious, cheeky smile rubs off on my own children, and they smile too. Smiling defines happiness. Feeling positive towards others and life in general creates happiness and tons of smiles.
  While my boy was at school, I had an opportunity to put my feet up. I tried not to worry about all his unhappiness at school. Instead I used my own energy to focus on myself.
Before picking up Tim and Munequita from school, I couldn't resist choosing my own little smiley face. I stuck it on my cardigan as a reminder to myself, Irene, you need to smile at all times, even during challenging moments at home and outside. "Mmm... Let's see how it goes." I thought. I wore my happy sticker to encourage Tim to be more positive and happy about school. "He's definitely not a happy little boy when he comes through the door." I thought. I stuck my happy face on my cardigan, with the idea to keep smiling and bring happiness to Tim's sad little face. 

It isn't always a smile :( :( :( Who knows what my happy face could turn into? It could be a sad one next, who knows. Earlier my sad face took over my smiley face. Thankfully it wasn't long before I managed to retrieve my smiley face back again .It wasn't nice to see my own daughter feeling sad. Muneca is going through a rough patch. It isn't fair. Life sucks. This is one example how our own emotions can rapidly change for the worst, because of life circumstances.
So how do we learn to manage our own emotions in the best possible way under difficult circumstances? This is one great learning curve I've managed to control under difficult circumstances. It took me many years to learn how to regulate my own personal emotions and this is one important lesson to teach children how to manage their own emotions through tough times. Each day creates new life experiences, whether they are good or bad, or whether it happens at home or out.    

It is important to learn how to find ways to regulate your own emotions.
Tim came back from school. My face couldn't stop smiling seeing my little boy come back from school, and so was my sticker on my jumper smiling together with me. Tim's sad little face beamed with excitement to see Mummy again, as he curiously asked about my smiley sticker.
"Do you like it?"
"I do Mummy."
"I love this smiley face sticker because it makes me feel happy. Would you like a smiley sticker like Mummy's?" I said, as I showed him the bag of smiley faces.
"Look at all those sad, angry and happy faces. Which one is you?"
Tim picked up a blue little sad face and stuck it on his sweater.
"What a sad little face. Why did you pick him up?"
"I picked this sticker, because I had a sad day at school," said Tim.
"What happened at school?" I said.
He immediately opened up about his school day.
"Tim, I'm so happy and proud of you, to share about your own feelings. So are you still a sad face?"
"No Mummy. Now I'm feeling... "
Timmy pull out a happy face sticker and stuck it on top of his sad sticker. He was smiling again.

Both smiling while reading a book together after supper.

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