All parents want to help teach their kids about emotions.
Reading My Big Emotions with your child is a fun and effective way to support this.
Emotional development is a key part of growing up for all children. They need to learn to recognise and express their emotions in a healthy way.
The common behaviour problems that parents struggle with including tantrums, sibling rivalry, aggression, and whinging (to name a few) are often reflective of underlying struggles with their emotions.
When our children can identify and express how they are feeling, there is less of a need to act it out in their behaviour, especially if they have a parent there to help them.
Children with better emotional management skills have better relationships with their parents, closer friendships, higher self-esteem and perform better at school.
A foundational step in teaching kids about emotions is through language.
Set out as in an A - Z format, My Big Emotions with your child helps develop their emotional vocabulary. It is perfect for young children and can be enjoyed by children of all ages.
Using the illustrations and definitions in the book, you can join your child on a journey through their emotions and help them make sense of the emotional world around them
As a bonus, reading to our children helps increase their imagination, develop their brain, enhance their focus and concentration skills and strengthens the parent-child relationship.
My Big Emotions is only one part of the puzzle of helping children with their emotions.
The author, Heather Lindsay, is passionate about providing ongoing support to parents and caregivers to help them teach their kids about emotions AND to help parents and caregivers keep their cool during the process.
Information about how she can help is found through the "For Parents" section of this website.