Mixed and Conflicting Emotions
Understand that people can experience mixed or conflicting emotions at the same time — feeling excited and nervous about starting a new school, or happy for a friend who won but disappointed for yourself
Lesson
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“Mixed and Conflicting Emotions means noticing that two feelings can be true at once. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Feeling pair cards: excited+nervous, happy-for-friend+disappointed
- Both-can-be-true card
Extra for the adult
Worked example. You can feel excited and nervous together. You can feel happy for a friend and disappointed for yourself.
Optional challenge. For Mixed and Conflicting Emotions, add happy-for-friend + disappointed.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: mixed pair named; support used. This session samples mixed feelings, not mastery of psychology.
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Mixed and Conflicting Emotions means noticing that two feelings can be true at once. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes naming mixed-feeling pairs, then checking one fresh example.
Explain two simultaneous feelings about different aspects of a fictional event.
Explain two simultaneous feelings about different aspects of a fictional event.
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Start practiceMixed and Conflicting Emotions practice
Choose mixed-emotion facts.
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What Is Stress?
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What Is Stress? supports Mixed and Conflicting Emotions. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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KidsHealth. “What Is Stress?.” External page; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute materials.
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Check understanding
- Describe a personal situation where they felt two emotions simultaneously
- Explain why mixed feelings are normal and not something to worry about
- Identify mixed emotions in a character from a book or film
“When your child's best friend gets picked for the team and they don't, can your child explain that they feel happy for their friend AND disappointed for themselves at the same time?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Emotional Literacy
- Age range
- Ages 9–11
Standards