How Are You Feeling Today: A Let's Talk picture book to help young children understand their emotions

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Children have strong feelings and they can't always handle them very well. Perfect for sharing, How Are You Feeling Today is packed with fun, imaginative ways to help children understand and cope with a whole range of different emotions. This delightful book gives parents the tools they need to help their child deal with those feelings - without it all ending in tears! A great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling. Notes at the back of the book provide more ideas for parents and carers to use with their child and other strategies to try out together to practice the all-important skill of dealing with feelings. Lets Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.

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The book is an excellent way to help children understand and manage their feelings whilst reassuring them that it is quite normal to feel that way. Keep this book handy for all those tricky moments! -- Sarah Brew * www.parentsintouch.co.uk *
Offers young children an enjoyable collection of illustrated activities to manage their emotions. Clearly themed layouts make it easily jump into any page that captures what they are feeling and helps them by providing simple ways to manage and express themselves creatively! -- Chosen as a recommended read for under seven-year-olds * Our Time, ourtime.org.uk *
This book provides the tools children need to be able to deal with such feelings...There are great little explanations... -- Martine Horvath * Early Years Educator magazine *
A wonderful book with a simple layout for the child to follow. It is packed full of brilliant ideas to help a child with a number of different emotions. -- Clare Shaw's Children's Books * cskidsbooks.com *
Perfect for primary school aged children, this activity book is filled with lively illustrations and engaging activities about dealing with a whole range of emotions... * Brave Girl's Book Club *

Author Bio

Molly Potter taught for 11 years in middle schools as a class teacher, science and PSHE co-ordinator. She then worked for several years as an SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) Development Manager, delivering teacher training and supporting primary schools in the development of their SRE programme and policy and many other aspects of PSHE. Molly now works as a teacher in a short-stay school with children that have been or are at risk of being excluded from mainstream schools - putting much of her PSHE expertise into practice. Sarah Jennings has been illustrating children's books since graduating in 2013. At a young age she discovered a love of drawing and has been scribbling ever since. Sarah enjoys combining traditional and digital techniques to create her illustrations and particularly loves designing characters. She currently lives in London and works from her home studio in the company of her very cheeky three-legged cat.