The "And I Felt..." Game

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I wanted to share about a little game my family has been playing at the supper table. It has really been helping my sons with their emotional literacy, vocabulary of emotions, empathy and general conversation skills, plus I just like that they are willingly sharing more about their days with us (they never have before).

Each person describes one thing that happened to them that day. It can be a good, bad or mundane thing. They finish their description by saying "and I felt...". This is the cue for the other people at the table to try to guess which emotion or mix of emotions (we want to teach the idea that often our feelings are a mixture of different emotions) the person was feeling at that time. I have been pleasantly surprised at how insightful my sons can be.

Anyway, it is a fun little thing that has been helpful, and I wanted to share in case anyone else would find it helpful too.

Thank you

I really like that idea -- thank you!

Great idea!