What Happens When I'm Scared: How to Understand and Talk About Fear and Anxiety

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The perfect tool to teach children how to handle emotions such as feeling scared, anxious, or worried. What Happens When I'm Scaredprovides parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers the opportunity to speak with children about this important topic.

What is fear

What does it feel like

Can feelings of fear be passed on to others

And can they return

In What Happens When Im Scared, children take turns listing what scares them. They express their concern over the dark, big dogs, heights, spiders, monsters under the bed, bullies, extreme weather, and speaking in front of others.

Through discussing what they fear, they begin to understand why certain places, people, or circumstances make them feel nervous, worried, anxious, scared, or even nauseous. They learn about their bodys biological reactions, both physical and mental. And they determine that its absolutely okay to be afraid and that everyone, from babies to grandparents, is scared sometimes.

In What Happens When I'm Scared, award-winning author and illustratorDagmar Geisler draws attention to what could be a sensitive subject to some and provides advice for overcoming fear that will be helpful to young readers as well asthose who live and work with them daily, like parents, grandparents, teachers, siblings,and caregivers.

Author Bio

Dagmar Geisler is a German author and illustrator. She studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden and worked for several publishing houses and broadcasting companies. Today, Dagmar focuses mainly on children's books, both as an illustrator and an author. She illustrated My Body Belongs to Me from My Head to My Toes, which received the Silver Feather (Silberne Feder) Children's Book Prize from the German Medical Women's Association, and is the illustrator of My Feelings and Me. She lives with her family in Munich, Germany.