Up and Down, Round and Round: A book about understanding and identifying emotions - Paperback

by Sara Olsher (Author)

How do we teach kids about emotions and feelings?

Openly, honestly, and using terminology that we can incorporate into our everyday conversations with our kids.

This book is a fabulous educational resource that uses colors and the emotional "up and downs" in every day to talk about how to understand and identify emotions - and why that's so important.

Identifying emotions and where they're felt in the body is a vital skill for kids and adults alike and is the first step toward emotional regulation.

This is important book is the first in Mighty + Bright's highly anticipated "Emotions" series, and introduces the concept of emotional regulation. It is part of Mighty + Bright's Kids' Mental Health at Home Program.

This book explains the emotional experience in an easy-to-understand way and incorporates scientific findings such as "Name it to Tame it," the Window of Tolerance (developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD, co-author of "The Whole Brain Child"), and the Zones of Regulation, an educational method used in many schools.

This book covers:

• The role our bodies and brains play in emotion;
• The purpose of emotion in our lives, and the concept of high energy emotions (like anger or anxiety) and low energy emotions (like sadness or depression);
• The desire for unpleasant emotions to go away, and why they're helpful;
• Why emotions happen, including how our thoughts can cause them;
• The benefit of naming our emotions;
• How to begin understanding our own emotional experience;
• Common worries about BIG emotions and how to safely cope with them;
• Different people's different reactions to the same experience;
• An opening to discuss anxiety and depression with kids;
• The idea that no day is all "good" or all "bad."