My Body Sends a Signal: Helping Kids Recognize Emotions and Express Feelings (Resilient Kids)

Review
"Highly recommend for family reading, as well as a tool for speech therapists, daycare/school counselors, and behavior therapists."
- Victoria
"As a School Counselor ... I will definitely add this to my toolbox."
- Shanté
"This book helped my toddler put words and emotions to her feelings I loved everything about this book. The illustrations are colorful and beautiful."
-Kymberly Roby
"I just want to point out the grandparents in this book... and the way they accept boys feelings... no judgment, no shaming... just love. They are so warm and cuddly that i wanted to jump on their laps myself)))))"
- Victoria
"I highly recommend this book for parents of toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary aged children as well as preschool and elementary school teachers. It's a great resource and makes discussing feelings and emotions easier and helps children understand what feelings and emotions are."
- Connie D.
How to teach kids about emotions and feelings?Like teaching them everything else - using clear words, familiar situations, exciting pictures and a lot of hands-on activities (games, puzzles, coloring pages, etc.) One can, of course, spend time and find various resources online. Or one can get just one book.This book is an excellent educational source that has is all. The book includes a cute story that kids can relate to, beautiful illustrations that capture children's attention, calming-down activities for kids, instructions to adults on the follow-up activities, emotions cards, feelings cards, coloring pages and related short stories to teach kids empathy.
From the Author
I am delighted that you are passionate about making your children more confident, enabling them to build stronger relationships as well as to perform better academically. These abilities require "emotional regulation"-- that is, the process of recognizing emotions, expressing feelings, calming oneself down in the face of overwhelming emotions, and learning to treat others with empathy.
Like us, adults, kids have a wide rangeof feelings. They get happy, jealous, disgusted, angry, nervous, sad, proud,worried, and excited. But at a very young age, they simply don't possess the vocabulary to express their feelings verbally. They express their feelingst hrough tantrums, mimicry, physical movements, and gestures. These expressions are often sweet and funny, but sometimes they just drive us nuts!
This book will help you explain to your kids that emotions, that is signals they get from their bodies, are linked to feelings. These feelings, whether positive or negative, are all perfectly fine, but they can be expressed differently.
This book will also expand your children's vocabulary by offering them different words to express their feelings with.
And finally, the book offers hands-on activities for hours of entertainment after reading.
I hope your kids will enjoy the story.
I feel... EXCITED!