Pixar film Inside Out can help kids discuss their emotions with parents

Parents can use the delightful Inside Out to teach children about their feelings — and how they don’t have to be conrolled by them, two therapists tell Margaret Jennings.

THE animated fantasy film Inside Out, which opened in our cinemas last Friday, should be used by parents as a platform to discuss difficult topics with their kids and to explore their emotions, suggests child and adolescent psychotherapist, Colman Noctor.

The Pixar Studios film, which explores the inner world of 11-year-old girl, Riley, explains how positive and negative emotions can struggle for dominance, yet also team up, to solve problems.