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Growing Feelings
A Kids' Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends, Classmates, and Other Kids
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2023 NATIONAL PARENTING PRODUCT AWARDS WINNER
Everyone likes the idea of "best friends forever," but friendships can be complicated, and they often involve dealing with difficult feelings. Almost all children have experienced feeling shy at a party where they don't know anyone, furious during an argument with a friend, or sad when a friend moves away. Because kids care a lot about friends, they often have big emotional responses about them.
This entertaining and empowering book addresses a wide range of feelings children have about friends and other kids, including worry, guilt, jealousy, compassion, and gratitude. Through relatable cartoon stories, practical, research-based coping strategies, plus silly commentary from a cat and dog who have their own (questionable) ideas about what might help, kids get a hands-on approach that they can put into practice.
Child psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin show kids how to recognize the Feelings Story behind common friendship rough spots, demonstrating the links between events, thoughts, emotions, actions, and social reactions through the situational cartoons, so children can clearly see how their reactions fuel or resolve relationship problems. And going far beyond a simplistic and unrealistic "don't worry, be happy, think positive only" approach, Growing Feelings offers a nuanced perspective on feelings about friends. It emphasizes that all emotions are useful and guides children in how to empathize with others' reactions, as well as how to understand, manage, and communicate in healthy ways about their own feelings.
Caring friendships are a protective factor for children's mental health. Giving kids the tools they need to deal with the feelings about friends is a powerful step toward protecting and improving their well-being.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781582708799
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781582708799
- File size: 49555 KB
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Languages
- English
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June 15, 2023
The duo behind Growing Friendships (2017) return to offer kids more advice. Anger, jealousy, sadness--big feelings often arise in friendships, both among casual acquaintances and BFFs. Kennedy-Moore and McLaughlin consider the nuances of various emotions--for example, the section on anxiety is broken down into chapters on embarrassment, shyness, guilt, and more. Using the concept of "Feelings Stories," the authors offer concrete examples of how people's actions can impact others' emotions. They also encourage readers to develop sound social-emotional habits, such as prioritizing trust and self-forgiveness, taking responsibility for one's actions, having "a good cry" when needed, and treating others with kindness. Ultimately, the book stresses, you can't control what others do, only what you do. Each major section ends with reflective questions and advice for using the strategies introduced to help others. The authors frame positivity as a "good practice" and suggest reserving the negative stuff for discussions with close friends. The book only briefly mentions a neurodivergent perspective. All additional resources listed in the back are ones Kennedy-Moore, a psychologist specializing in parenting and child development, has co-authored. Line illustrations throughout depict diverse characters; a cartoon dog and cat provide humorous, animal-themed commentary that at times seems to make light of the serious issues covered. A helpful primer for navigating the emotional ups and downs of friendship. (glossary) (Nonfiction. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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