Book Two in the series, How To Help Your Children Learn What Their Feelings Mean, is a read-along activity book designed to build communication between adults and young children. This book series helps build a child's Feelings Vocabulary in storybooks that follow the adventures of their Friends.
Help young boys and girls put a name to feelings all experience but are often unable to express in words. Encourage a close bond with discussions about those feelings.
A child who understands their own emotions and can articulate them is able to show tenderness and empathy toward others.
Identifying and encouraging positive emotions with a word inspires confidence and self-acceptance. Acting out in ways that don't honestly express what is going on with your child can lead to unacceptable behavior. Children are less frustrated when they can describe what they are feeling, and parents and other adults can reassure children about what those feelings mean. Building a Feelings Vocabulary helps children mature in positive ways.
Learning to express feelings in young childhood gives a head start to becoming successful adults, with family, friends, relationships, careers, and in life. The Friends' adventures describing over one hundred feelings offer the unique opportunity for adults to help young children begin building a Feelings Vocabulary.
"CHILDREN WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR FEELINGS AND LEARN TO HANDLE THEIR EMOTIONS DO BETTER IN MANY WAYS:
* THEY FORM STRONGER FRIENDSHIPS WITH OTHER CHILDREN.
* THEY CALM THEMSELVES DOWN MORE QUICKLY WHEN THEY GET UPSET.
* THEY DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
* THEY HANDLE THEIR MOODS BETTER AND HAVE FEWER NEGATIVE EMOTIONS.
* THEY BOUNCE BACK MORE QUICKLY FROM STRONG EMOTIONAL EVENTS.
* THEY GET SICK LESS OFTEN.
--John Gottman, Phd. Author of "Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child"
Ages 5-9