Feel good
Pain has a place in the body and a word that fits. Feeling well has neither, so the answer often stays at fine with nothing more. The pictures below offer more alternatives, so that feeling good gets a shape that can be pointed at.
♀Feel good
A girl stands with her arms raised, smiling, with a heart on her shirt.
About this visual support
We train children to describe problems far more than to describe when something works. A stomach ache has a word, a place and a remedy, while feeling good often gets no more than a shrug. As a result, a child who feels well has no language for it, and what works rarely gets noticed or repeated.
Visual support helps by offering nuance. When calm, happy, energetic and content exist as separate pictures, it becomes possible to point at the difference between them. It also gives adults something to build on: a child who points at calm can be asked what made it calm.
A concrete tip is to dwell on the good days as long as on the hard ones. A short conversation about what worked yields more information than a long one about what went wrong. In Routined a brief check-in can sit in the evening routine, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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