Read this book to find out how Dr. Kich intervenes to bring productive action into a situation filled with anger. The book "Anne and Amy's Anger Emotatude" explains how anger can be used in powerful ways. It is one of the many Emotatude books that help us deal with our feelings.
Ada is a friend who feels of embarrassed. She can not do what her friends can do. Her friends with feelings help her reach her goals. Read this story to find out how these friends help each other and cope with embarrassment.
See how friends with feelings manage to observe and communicate their feelings of boredom after getting stuck inside. Explore how it can help to have friends understand you and get creative to find new things to do when you get bored.
Coloring mandalas help us express emotion and can give us time to pause and reflect on our feelings. You can color these emotion mandalas which are artistic renderings of feelings that take into account our inner and outer life. It is a fun way to process what is going on in your emotional life and gives us a chance to become more aware of how we feel. This is a jumping off point of expressing our feelings.Mandalas may vary, but there are a few things about them that are constant.They are circular, symbolic, spiritual, and focus on unity. We use these mandalas as a way to look at your inner life of feelings. Although, the mandala may be viewed as a religious symbol, here it is used as a tool to encourage social emotional awareness.Our tech focused world may distract us from awareness of what we feeling. These mandala sallow us to take time to contemplate our emotional life so we can better cope with the outside world.It is our hope that these mandalas will be a step to help us pause to feel, and acknowledge feelings so we can express what we feel.
Confusion can be eased when you are clear about rules and feel secure about boundaries. Learning that rules change in different situations is key. See how Deb copes when she feels confused when the rules about toys and food change at school.
Have you or someone love ever felt sad? Did you feel sad when your friends left and did not play with you? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of Deb her mom and her three friends Ada, Ben and Cal who want to go swim at the beach with Deb. Deb cannot go because she has been sick and had a fever. Each time a friend comes to the door to invite Deb to go swim, her mother lets them know that she is too sick to go. Deb wants to go swimming with her friends. See how Deb copes with sadness.
I Feel Angry When You Eat My Cookie, explores how a child can act out, talk about their feelings, and learn how to work out their anger and frustration on their own.
It is hard to tell someone they need to blow their nose. You don't want to hurt their feelings. Yet you also want them to know why you might not want to do things with them. This happens to Ben and Deb. Ben and Deb are two of the many monster friends who play together in the 'I Feel When' book series. They cope with their feelings of disgust in this first book of the series. Deb struggles with how to tell her enthusiastic friend Ben that he needs to blow his nose. Ben invites Deb to participate in many activities and she declines because she does not like being around his runny nose. Finally, she tells him. Ben then tells Deb how he felt bad when she told him. They work out their feelings and Ben agrees to blow his nose. This colorful book opens the door to discussing runny noses in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways.