How do you react when you feel angry? Or when you feel loving? Or when you feel calm, scared, happy or sad? This box of board books helps first-time readers find the words to express their feelings.
How do you react when you feel angry? Or when you feel loving? Or when you feel calm, scared, happy or sad? This box of board books helps first-time readers find the words to express their feelings.
When you feel sad, you might seem lonely or upset. You might be disappointed or homesick. And sometimes it feels good to talk about it.
When you feel happy, it might make you feel playful or proud, excited or silly. Most of all, it makes you feel good!
When you feel love, you can sometimes feel cuddly, grateful, giving and kind. But, no matter what, it’s nice to be loved.
When you feel angry, you might get jealous or frustrated, embarrassed or furious. Anger is a big feeling, after all.
When you feel scared, it isn’t very nice. It makes you feel nervous and worried. You might be terrified or maybe just shy. But isn’t it nice when someone helps you know that everything will be OK?
When you feel calm, you often feel peaceful, focused, confident and carefree. Calm is the feeling of just being yourself.
My Box of Feelings is a very simple set of books that don’t have any deeper messages or meanings than the words they use to help children express the big feelings that each book represents: sad, happy, love, angry, scared and calm. However, the colorful small cutout books can easily be used to discuss why God gave us the feelings we have and how He can help us work through the more difficult ones.
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Why do you think God created us with these different feelings inside of us? Are there ways that some feelings protect us from bad things? Do our feelings help us make good choices or help others?
Of all of these feelings, which one do you think is the best, and why? How can you help your friends or your younger brother or sister when they feel sad or scared or angry? Are there good things we can do? Can we help them feel happy or loved or calm?
What sorts of things do you want to do when you feel happy? What about when you feel calm or loving?
These colorful and durable little books are tools that parents can use to help their little ones identify, describe and even regulate the way they’re feeling.
The books are all centered on character drawings and colors—red for anger, yellow for happiness, light blue for calm, etc.—that express the emotion talked about. And there’s nothing negative, offensive or frightening in the mix.
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After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.
