Children, Art & Stress

The Thought for Today:
Children are more likely to express their feelings, thoughts and Ideas with pencils, crayons, pens, and finger paint.

Children may provide additional information after painting and drawing based on their art.

These stories can help them communicate their thoughts and feelings about stressful events that are often difficult to verbalize.

Why is this important? Art allows children to reconstruct experiences; frightening things can be made less scary, and children gain power and control.

I think the most important piece of this issue is that we want children, who eventually grow into adults, that are able to find ways of coping. I wonder if there are other really constructive ways we have discovered, as adults or children, to cope with really difficult feelings? Anyone??