How Are You Feeling Today?: A Let's Talk picture book to help young children understand their emotions

Great guide for kids yo identify, talk about, and process emotions. Healthy coping strategies. We love reading it together.

My daughter likes it, she wants me to read it over and over again.

A great dip-in book helping children to identify, name & think about ways of managing feelings. Perfect as part of the SPHE/PSHE curriculum or a great resource for a parent who wants to start conversations about emotions. See more of my review, with some pictures here: http://missusbspicturebookreviews.blogspot.ie/2015/12/how-are-you-feeling-today.html

I wanted to get a book for my children, to help them and give them ideas for managing their emotions in a positive, mindful and gentle way, which would go alongside my parenting ethics. I am so glad I flicked through this book before exposing my children to its contents. It is going straight back. This book is such an awful book. The ideas are so shocking!!! I.e. when you feel angry; curl up into an ever so little ball frown and grit you teeth...(?) run super fast on the spot until you are really worn out... HIT a pillow! Really ???

What a fab book. Not what I expected. It actually allows your child to say ok I feel shy today. If I turn to page 22 then I can see how others feel when shy and how to come out of it. My sons 8 and this is perfect for him as I no others said it was preschool. But definitely suitable for age 8 years.

Brilliant book to communicate better with your child. My son knows where its kept and when he has a 'feeling' he'll get the book and ask me to help him pick what sounds the best for what he's feeling. Once found, we discuss it and he feels so much better. It's also encourages them (Boys, in particular) that it's ok and normal to have these feelings and to help them understand how they came to feeling that way, brilliant book, must have.

This book is fantastic! We use it with the kids to help them process when they're overwhelmed by multiple emotions (our kids are 6 and 8).We start with the emotions page, a double-page with 8 circles listing all feelings (happy, sad, angry, jealous, excited, 'quiet', embarrassed, bored) and ask one by one "are you feeling ...".When we've established what they're feeling there's the option to go to the page for an explanation of what it is and ideas of things to do. Initially, we would go to the pages after and read about the feeling.Now the kids can just talk it through. The genius of it is that it helps them separate feelings and process them separately. For example, our son was really quiet ahead of going to camp for a week, going through the book brought out that he's happy to be going but sad as he'll miss us, nervous as he didn't know what to expect, but excited to see what they'll do. He could talk about each feeling and understand that it's ok and how to deal with it. Before he would get overwraught and it would come out in some kind of less than ideal behaviour.

This book is great. I bought it to try and help 5 year old grandson with his 'rages' (usually very happy, sweet child but then for no apparent reason...). He loves the book and asks to read through it lots. I helps him enjoy good feelings as well as cope with bad ones