ABOUT THE SHOW
Tundra Friends is an educational preschool series that prepares young children for their first years at school by promoting emotional intelligence. The show follows a group of Arctic animal friends from Nunavut as they learn how to recognize, name, and understand their feelings in healthy ways. Each episode sees the friends as they go to school, play games, and navigate life issues that are common in the lives of young children. With the help of their friends and teacher, the characters learn how to better understand how they feel and how to express their emotions in healthy ways. This series is filled with age-appropriate information shown through scenarios children encounter, like taking turns while playing, meeting a new sibling, and having jitters on the first day of school. Viewers can watch these scenarios and learn coping techniques for when they are feeling similar emotions.
Benefits for young viewers
Tundra Friends helps young viewers talk about how they feel and resolve emotional issues in positive and healthy ways. By modelling healthy relationships, the Tundra Friends characters promote healthy emotional outcomes for children. When young children can identify their emotions, they can start to take active steps to change them. And when children can manage their own emotions, they are better able to deal with stress and challenging situations as they come up and take better care of themselves. Being sensitive to their own feelings also allows children to identify emotions in others. This can help children build positive relationships by being open and honest about their own emotions and be sensitive to others. Best of all, developing emotional skills at an early age can help children to become mentally healthy throughout their lives.