Up and Down Round and Round

<p><strong>How do we teach kids about emotions and feelings?</strong></p><p>Openly honestly and using terminology that we can incorporate into our everyday conversations with our kids.</p><p>This book is a fabulous educational resource that uses colors and the emotional up and downs in every day to talk about how to understand and identify emotions - and why that's so important.</p><p>Identifying emotions and where they're felt in the body is a vital skill for kids and adults alike and is the first step toward emotional regulation.</p><p>This is important book is the first in Mighty + Bright's highly anticipated Emotions series and introduces the concept of emotional regulation.</p><p>This book explains the emotional experience in an easy-to-understand way and incorporates scientific findings such as Name it to Tame it the Window of Tolerance (developed by Dr. Dan Siegel MD co-author of The Whole Brain Child) and the Zones of Regulation an educational method used in many schools.</p><p>This book covers:</p><ul><li>The role our bodies and brains play in emotion;</li><li>The purpose of emotion in our lives and the concept of high energy emotions (like anger or anxiety) and low energy emotions (like sadness or depression);</li><li>The desire for unpleasant emotions to go away and why they're helpful;</li><li>Why emotions happen including how our thoughts can cause them;</li><li>The benefit of naming our emotions;</li><li>How to begin understanding our own emotional experience;</li><li>Common worries about BIG emotions and how to safely cope with them;</li><li>Different people's different reactions to the same experience;</li><li>An opening to discuss anxiety and depression with kids;</li><li>The idea that no day is all good or all bad.</li></ul><p><br></p>