Feelings Set

Name: Feelings Set
ISBN: 9781403498120

by Sarah Medina

For young children learning to understand and express their emotions, this book helps them identify various feelings they might experience.

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About This Book

A parent would reach for this book when their young child is experiencing big emotions but lacks the words to name or express them. The "Feelings Set" is a straightforward concept book that uses clear, engaging photographs of diverse children to label fundamental emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise. It serves as a simple, direct tool for building a foundational emotional vocabulary. For toddlers and preschoolers just beginning to understand their inner world, this book normalizes having different feelings and provides a shared language for parents and children to talk about them, making it an excellent first step in developing emotional intelligence.

Anger & Frustration Joy & Gratitude Self-Confidence & Identity Sadness & Grief Empathy & Kindness Friendship & Social Family & Siblings

What Parents Should Know

Sad ThemesMild

Directly names and shows children feeling sad and angry in a normalizing, non-threatening way.

Sensitive Topics

There are no sensitive topics like death or divorce. The book's approach to emotions like sadness and anger is direct, secular, and normalizing. It presents these feelings as a part of everyday life without attaching any complex narrative or moral judgment. The resolution is simply the acceptance that all these feelings exist and are valid.