Feelings and Dealings: The ABC's of Emotions: An SEL Storybook to Build Emotional Intelligence, Social Skills, and Empathy

Description

This Social Emotional Learning (SEL) storybook supports emotional health and connection! Parents, teachers, caregivers, and mental health professionals of children ages 3 - 8 years love using Feelings and Dealings to develop empathy. This therapeutic tool develops emotional intelligence and social skills through rhyme while moving through the alphabet. Kids discover a wide range of 26 common emotions which builds empathy, self and other awareness, and interpersonal connection. While reading, kids learn how to identify emotions through facial expressions, body language, and in social contexts. Let's name our emotions, Through the alphabet. We'll see kids dealing with feelings, With family, friends and pets! What you will find inside the book: • The alphabet with each letter assigned to an emotion for a total of 26 emotions, including 26 Individual Poses designed to develop emotional intelligence and 26 corresponding Social Scenes designed to develop social intelligence and social skills. • 26 Individual Poses: Each Individual Pose shows a child expressing an emotion through nonverbal cues such as facial expressions and body language. • 26 Social Scenes: Each Social Scene conveys an emotion in a realistic social situation involving family, friends, and pets in a variety of age-appropriate settings. • Each Individual Pose matches a Social Scene so kids discover 26 nuanced emotions including the basics (afraid, angry, happy, etc.) to modern, complex emotions (distracted, overwhelmed, etc.) in individual and social contexts. • A nice large format (8.5"x11" size) for young kids with small hands. Who and how it helps: • Aids Parents, Therapists, Teachers, and Caregivers: Counselors and Psychologists use this book in therapy, teachers use it in the classroom to teach empathy and social skills, and parents use it as conversation starters to connect with their children or simply as an educational aid in child development. • Supports emotional health and connection: Kids discover a wide range of 26 emotions which builds empathy, self and other awareness, interpersonal connection, and models ways to express needs. • Teaches empathy: When you have empathy, you can better understand another person’s emotions and actions. Empathy broadens our perspective, improves communication, better enables collaboration, and deepens relationships. Review: My 4 year old LOVES THIS BOOK! - My 4 year old absolutely loves this book. We read it every night before bed (at her request). It is a little long (as it goes through the whole alphabet) but it easily keeps my little one’s attention. It discusses a variety of emotions. I read in another review from a preschool teacher that there “isn’t enough positive emotions.” That review even criticized the first two emotions in the book - “angry” and “bored.” Teaching preschool aged children and parenting preschool aged children are two totally different things. While I appreciate the preschool teacher’s desire to remain positive, the fact is that it’s important for parents to help their children understand both good and bad feelings and emotions AND how to react to them. This book opens doors for discussing our reactions to emotions that would otherwise be difficult to bring up. It’s also culturally diverse which I know will be useful when my kids are a little older. I honestly have no reason NOT to give this book 5 stars. Review: Great to learn emotions! - Very well written! It’s perfect to teach kids their emotions and how to deal with them. I’m seriously impressed. Also my therapist had me get this for me to help me learn how to express emotion so really a great book!!!