Stop Hitting, Tim!: A Calming Picture Book and Story about Boys Stopping Hitting, How to Control Anger, the Urge to Hit and Using Gentle Hands For Kids Ages 2 to 6 (Feeling Big Emotions Picture Books) Paperback – November 23, 2021

Tim's friend, Jed, is coming to his house to play. Mom reminds him to put any toys that he doesn't want to share in his room because the toys in the living room will be ones to share with Jed. That works well until Jed finds a toy that Tim hadn't realized was IN the living room. He doesn't want to share, and he is angry. See how he calms himself. However, when Tim invites Jed to play in his room (with ALL his toys), trying to calm his anger doesn't work. See what happened when anger interrupted the fun. Is play time over? Or can Mom get things back on track?I appreciated the fact that in this story Tim cannot handle all his anger by himself. I have read too many of these where the child always calms himself down and never needs an adult's help. That is unrealistic. With this story we see that sometimes children DO need an adult to step in and help. That is the truth, and children reading this won't feel bad about themselves when they also need help.Great illustrations to go with the story. Great for young children!

It tells a great story of why hitting is bad, and it helps my son with angry issues

This book is perfect for young children to relate to. It shares the story of Tim who has a playdate with his friend Jed. When Tim becomes angry, he hits his friend, because he doesn’t know how to manage his strong emotions. His mom comes to the rescue, offering Tim strategies to help him control his anger and his impulse to hit. The concept in this book is easily relatable. My two year old nephew IS Tim, and this book was very helpful in guiding him to understand respectful ways to control his anger. Strategies like taking deep breaths and counting to ten are simple ways that we can help kids learn how to control their negative emotions. This book includes bright, colorful illustrations that do a great job of capturing the character’s emotions. This is a perfect book to help youngsters grow by overcoming challenges in emotion management.

My son often gets angry at his sister and will lose control of his emotions. This is a great little story that can help kids understand how to control that anger, not lash out and control the emotions. The illustrations are great and the story is too. My son enjoyed this and I hope this will help give him another tool in controlling those anger emotions.

The book gave two instances of hitting, but zero examples of an apology or information to help children rebuild relationships after they've hit. It isn't helpful at all.

I'm not advocating corporal punishment but there needs to be consequences and, while teaching children a couple of superficial anger management techniques, there is no punishment for Tim hitting his friend twice. The story seemed incomplete and ended abruptly. Not much depth to the story or the strategies. The angry faces on the pizza at the end just seemed bizarre. The illustrations were good.

Cute

A short book to emphasize the point that everyone gets mad and has big emotions/feelings, but how you deal with them is important. I especially loved the point being driven home via angry pizza. To me, represented anger as a normal/common emotion, how you handle it is the important bit. Great read. I highly recommend.