Feelings are visitors
The sentence every child in this program hears in every lesson, and the chemistry underneath it.
Every lesson in this program opens the same way. Feelings are visitors. All of them are allowed to visit, the happy ones and the grumpy ones. And every visitor leaves.
That is not a comforting phrase. It is close to literal. Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor describes how the chemical wave of an emotion moves through the body in about ninety seconds. What keeps a feeling alive longer is the story we keep telling ourselves about it.
Children can learn this astonishingly early. A feeling is a label for what the body is doing right now, and what the body is doing changes.
The consequence matters more than the fact. A child who knows this is not a victim of their feelings. They are the hero of what happens next.