books about sharing feelings

[pinklemonade84]

Dd (5) has received her reception report today and she is struggling with the social and emotional side of things. She's a shy, sensitive soul and is very apprehensive around new adults

Her report says that she can express that she's upset, but not articulate why she's upset

So, I was wondering if anyone knows if there are any books that I can get for her to help her with this? And if there's anything we can do to help grow her confidence with adults please?

Thankfully her year 1 teacher will be someone that she already knows, so we know she won't be as painfully shy as she was with her teacher this year.

Do you have a local library? Ours has a special bookcase in the children’s areas that always have books (propped up, so on display) about topics like Emotions, or Feeling Anxious, etc...

If you don’t have one then I can always tell you the books they’ve got in ours when I nip in next time!

My little girl struggles explaining her emotions, she’s a year younger.. have you read Colour Monster? That’s quite good, it labels emotions by colour. My DD seems to be able to tell me she’s feeling red or black or blue more than I’m sad, I’m angry, scared or sad. There’s also a book called Sweep that’s very good!

Thank you so much, I'm going to look at all of these suggestions. I think she might respond to the colour monster book, so I'm on my way to amazon to search for that too

There’s also “the colour monster at school” which may help.

Libraries are a great idea, ours have a great display.

The worrysaurus
The squirrels who squabbled
The koala who could
Ruby's worries
Perfectly Norman
Ravi's roar
The invisible
The lion inside
The bear who stared

I was going to suggest the colour monster it really helped DS. Because of it we could discuss what colours where in his brain and what we could do to put the unwanted colours back into their jars

There's a new Colour monster goes to school and an activity book

Over the holidays, talk to her in every day conversation about how you and other people are feeling. You feel a bit scared when you jump in the deep end. You feel proud when you do a cartwheel.

I think sometimes people are too protective of their dc getting hurt or scared or feeling sad that they rush in to make them feel better. Dc need to know it's ok to feel sad or frightened.