Movie Inside Out and Emotional Awareness

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Is anyone else getting terrific help with emotions from the movie Inside Out? We are finally making headway with our son understanding emotions. My son is not yet ready to take ownership of emotions he does not feel in control of, and this is a really great way for him to relate to his emotions and how they are different without feeling blamed for having them in the first place.

Note: I know he has to work on taking ownership of actions that result from them, and that is what we are using this to help him on---but awareness was something we could not even do before in any meaningful way.

We haven't seen it yet, but both kids want to. I'll let you know after we see it. My son has good emotional awareness, but my daughter has more difficulty in this area.

I expect it will be helpful, though. When she used to watch pre-school cartoons, there were a lot of social concepts that she learned from shows like Nai Hao Kai Lan and ....can't think of the name...something with "three special steps"...and a few others.

My son went to see this with his class the other day and according to them, he loved it. Our cinema usually does one ASD screening per month at the most, so they only show the movie once in ASD-friendly environment, but they're doing this one twice so apparently they decided it was a good ASD movie. Anyway, I'm thinking about taking my son again since he liked it and I want him to get used to going to the cinema. It would be an added bonus if he learns about emotional regulation too!!

That is awesome that you have ASD screenings of movies. We had to wait forever before we could take our son to the movies.

I really think something clicked for my son with this film. None of the books I have (I have tons) did any significant good. it is is either too simple like the ones with the LLama who is mad at his Mama or whatever it is, or lacking in visual interest and too complex.

This movie was pitch perfect. We got him containers, and beads of different colors for the memories, and he plays with it like a toy. We also ordered a figurine set for him, and we will see how that goes. (People who have not seen it--should not consider this a spoiler, I hope---but anyone who has seen it would know what I am referring to)

I also want to pick up one of those kids' picture book adaptations that Disney does, so he can refer to it, when he wants to. We are going to go to a real bookstore for that b/c I am hoping there is one with a non-fiction thing on emotions with it. Amazon had a bunch of stuff, but I want to look at it more than a "Look-Inside's" worth.