What Am I Feeling?

I heard a podcast with the authors and really enjoyed reading it to my children and also to my 3 year old class

I love this book! I had been listening to the authors' podcast for about a year and appreciate their empathetic approach to parenting. I'll admit that it's not my natural bent but I know what the research shows regarding to emotional intelligence and I so appreciate resources like this one. It's as much for any parent struggling with the appropriate expression of their own feelings as it is for the children you're reading it too -- ha ha! My 5-year-old daughter loves it and wants to read it every night. That said, she loves to talk about her feelings anyway. My 7-year-old son probably wouldn't admit that he likes it too but I see that he always joins us when we read it and is willing to share what he's feeling on the chart afterward. It's still lost on my 2-year-old son -- someday!About the chart, I do wish it were a bit more comprehensive and sturdier. There are only 9 feelings represented and I do understand that is to represent the feelings that the story itself touches on. Our chart ripped on the first reading and we left it in the back of the book for a long time. Just some constructive feedback but I would love to see the other side of the back hardcover with 10-20 corresponding faces and feelings printed right on it. My kids often say they are "nervous" and while scared is similar, it's not exactly the same. For this demographic, hungry and tired would also be helpful emotions because those are often the underlying feelings leading to all the other ones! We have since made our own necessary adjustments to the feeling chart (still want to add hungry and bored), bought a wooden magnetic hanging frame for the pull-out feeling chart and set it up in our “calm corner”. We still love the book and recommend it to everyone!

This is perfect for my preschooler to be engaged and to initiate conversations about emotion. The chart in the back is helpful in identifying feelings as well. This is more of a story line rather than going into a lot of detail about emotions which makes it a really great tool in regards to communicating feelings for any preschooler.

Every night before bed my son loves to read this book and talk about how the characters are feeling, he is so drawn to it. Then we have fun with the feelings chart and make all the faces ourselves and with his stuffed animals. Today at nap time he was upset about going to sleep (and we just transitioned him to a toddler bed last night). As my wife laid him down he cried and said sleep in mommy daddy’s bed and crawled out to me and I said, "can you tell mommy how your feeling?” He crawled over and got his feelings book and said “I show you how I feeling” and I said, “okay you show me how your feeling and then we are going to go to sleep, yes ma’am?” And he said “yes ma’am” I opened the feelings chart and said, “okay bud, how are you feeling?” He pointed to sad and said “I feel sad” so we talked about how it is sad that we have to stop playing to sleep but sleep is very important and we can play when we wake up and then we prayed and asked God to help him feel happy instead of sad and then he crawled in bed, I covered him up and he went to sleep. No tears! I love how this book relates to the kids but it has also helped my wife and I discussed our own emotions.

Josh and Christi have been a blessing to our household! We listen to their podcast regularly. We were at dinner one evening for Shabbat and the kids had been reading the book, we were able to pull out some specific examples going on in the little life if our 6 and 8 year olds to speak to them about their feelings and how we manage them. Now 4 months or so later we are still using their feelings chart and having conversations about what nit only ‘we ‘ are feeling but what someone one else may be feeling when they do certain things. We have given the book as gifts and parents agree that it was a great read not just for the kid but also for themselves as adults. I love what this couple teaches and I cant wait to hear more book titles based on the thibgs our kids can be dealing with as a child and how, we as lights in this world can handle ourselves as we Go to God for help and then how that can flow to others. Thank you so much for all you do!

I bought this book for my 2 year old granddaughter who has BIG emotions. I thought it might help her understand and navigate them. When I received it I thought she was too young for it, but would grow into it. I was wrong, she loves it! She likes to open the pop out poster and talk about the emotions portrayed. And, best of all it helped her navigate a meltdown recently. My daughter-in-law reminded her that "a feeling is just a feeling and it's not in charge of you", and that we can ask God to help us with our feelings. I highly recommend this book!

We started out kindergarten with several issues with our 5 yo boy. He had so much trouble listening, following directions and could not control his emotions. Several violent outbursts and even screaming rude things to people in the first couple months of school. We read this book about every night for a few weeks and he loved it. He's such a sweet boy, he just did not know how to deal with his emotions. Seriously this book has helped turn his year around and he even just got student of the month at his school. He gives hugs to others when they are sad, and he even told his teacher once to take a deep breath and name her feeling, and ask God to help her with it. Picture chart with the book and about a 10 minute read.

Love this sweet story, so great for kids who have strong emotion :) Wish I had one growing up!

Bought this to use with my four year old and it has been a very helpful tool for teaching him that though feelings in and of themselves are not wrong, there are good ways to handle them and poor ways. We have had lots of discussions about how to handle feelings well thanks to this book. This book has been read on repeat and even my 2 year old loves it most likely due to the bright, expressive animations. It has also been helpful with my 6 year old and helping her identify and verbalize what she is feeling. The chart that comes in the book is such a great bonus and has really extended the learning opportunities for my kids. Overall would definitely recommend for kids 3-7 approx. My kids are asking when there will be another book with the rest of the characters who are on the chart!

The book is really nice. I just disliked that they made it a religious matter, when it's completely unrelated. It feels very forced and sends the wrong message. Not everything is related to that, and the message is: pray and everything will be okay. And that's not true, you need to learn to name you emotions, identify them, etc. Again, praying and god is offtopic here.

This book and the accompanying feeling chart has been amazing for our family. Even our 20-month old son will walk up to the chart and point at one of the emotions when he's feeling sad or angry or whatever else. The positive awareness it has brought to our kids about how they feel and what to do about it has been an incredible blessing, and has helped us to be more intentional in facing big feelings with our little ones.

Love this book. A simple way for kids to understand their emotions and that it’s ok to have different feelings. Love the Christian perspective as well! We also like the feelings chart that is included and have it hanging on our fridge . The kids refer to it often when we talk about what’s going on for them . My daughters are 4 and have no problem understanding the concepts in this book.

Its OK at best.