Resilience 

 attention              Outlook

        Social intuition

Self -awareness

            Sensitivity to context 

Emotional styles are what every person has and is made up of. There is resilience, outlook, social intuition, self- awareness, sensitivity to context, and attention. Many of these you use in your life every day, like paying attention to parents at home and teachers at school. You may not know what any of these mean, but I can explain each one to you.

Hey! You took my ball! 

Resilience is when you can bounce back and feel better after a tough time. Maybe a friend hurt your feelings at recess by taking the basketball you were using. You probably feel mad or upset, right? Think about if you would feel better later that day and forget about it, or if you would go home still upset and stop talking to that friend. That is your resilience. 

Outlook is the way you think and imagine just about everything. It can be what pops in to your head when you think of school or your friends. Another way of outlook is how you feel about other people. It can also be having a good and happy attitude in situations. 

What is wrong?

Social intuition is when you can tell how another person is feeling. It can also be if you can easily guess an action that someone is going to take. Maybe you are playing with your cousin and it seems like something might be wrong. Are you able to quickly tell what is wrong and help him fix it? If so, you might have a strong sense of social intuition.

Self- awareness is knowing what you're doing and how it might be affecting yourself or other people. Self- awareness could be if you make a decision like taking your friend's toy car without asking. Yes, it might make you happy because you have a new toy, but it's good to think about how it affected your friend, they probably feel sad and upset that their toy is gone. It could also start to affect you later on when you start to feel bad that you took the toy without asking first. 

I am NOT picking my laundry up!

Sensitivity to context is how you react or behave when you are told to do something. Think about if your mom asks you to pick up the laundry off of your floor. How do you react, do you say "yes" and do it right away, or do you say "no" and stop away? One example of sensitivity to context could be if you got in trouble at school and your teacher tells you to stop doing something in front of the other kids. Maybe you take that as a helper and stop doing what you got in trouble for, or maybe it makes you mad and you keep doing it.