Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations (what the heck are those?) and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need.

This is a great book for teaching Pre-K students and students with developmental delays how to listen to their bodies and begin learning self-regulation. The language is simple and accessible, making it easy for young children to understand. It offers clear examples of physical cues and emotions, which helps kids make the connection between what they feel and how they can respond. It’s a valuable tool for social-emotional learning in both general and special education settings. I highly recommend it for teachers, therapists, and parents!

My therapist recommended this book for myself but to also read to my 3 year old. It's a little wordy for a 3 year old so I do skip some lines to keep his attention. During a tantrum it was a great resource to bring out and opened it up to the page about being upset and I do think it helped to show him what it looked like and to talk about how it feels. It taught my 3 year old more about his body and now he loves to point out to us every time he hears his heart. I love how it has you do examples like rubbing hands together for warmth or breathing techniques. I know it's helped me. My Dad read it to my kiddo and you remarked about what a good read it was so maybe he learned a thing or two!

This is a useful tool for counselors. It's appearance suggests it's a story and the pictures are kid-friendly, but it's not a story. It is packed with all sorts of ideas and reasons why kids may feel stressed, sad, angry, and/or a whole range of emotions, and kids will find it helpful. Counselors will likely pick the situations in it that apply to individual children with their unique situations, or review just a few pages at a time. The author, a Licensed Professional Counselor, suggests many ways kids can deal with their feelings and emotions. Some will work, some won't, but she gives plenty of choices. She also touches on ways to introduce mindfulness; again, counselors' preference on which parts of the book they want to focus on. This book will be useful for special needs kids and all kids dealing with any sort of stressful situation and daily situations we all encounter, such as, feeling hungry, cold, nervous, feelings, excited, happy, sad, etc. Kids on the autism spectrum are sometimes overwhelmed by a multitude of sensations and this may help them to separate them and deal with them.

I really like how the reader can follow along and do things to practice noticing sensations in his or her own body. As an elementary school counselor, students are happy to follow along when I read it to a class. I have the physical book, too. But, the first two pages in the physical book are not included in the Kindle version. I miss those. Otherwise it seems to be a match and is a helpful resource to teach about body sensations.

Great book! I love the exercises to practice with your child.

I absolutely love this book for teaching kids how to pay attention to their sensations and feelings and how those go together. There are little practices on just about each page so that kids can get into the experiential learning of this material. I've used this with kids from 3-12 in introducing them to the idea that they can regulate their emotions by paying attention to their bodies. My favorite part of this book is horse lips. It's a practice to help with anger and more than half of my kids will tell me that it's one of the things they remembered and practiced months later when our treatment is over. I work with kids with trauma and use this in the relaxation component of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I highly recommend this book to anyone working with kids in any capacity. All kids can benefit from learning mindfulness and understanding their sensations and feelings a little better.

We love this book! I bought this for my two sons (ages 4 and 6). It helps them identify their feelings, notice sensations, and calm down when they need to. Cute illustrations and not too wordy for their age group. Research has shown that teaching children to identify/name their feelings goes a long way in helping to build resilience and avoid depression later in life. This is the perfect book to introduce these concepts!

I really liked this book. It focuses on identifying feelings and sensations. Additionally, it has some suggestions of solutions to negative sensations and feelings. The images are really nice - calming colors, but still very descriptive. My purpose in buying the book was to have a starting point for talking about and identifying feelings. Once the feelings are identified, you can address appropriate behaviors that result from those feelings. Sometimes, just being able to name the sensations and feelings makes you aware of your body and allows you to then change course. I especially enjoyed the suggested exercises that allow children to identify the sensations more easily.

I purchased this book for my younger clients and have found it’s best suited for those 4-6. Great tool for introducing or reinforcing teaching mind body connection.

Great book for learning.

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You can find similar content and better quality print illustration on lower price.the pages are so thin can be easily torn ..I blindly purchase based on highest reviews.No option to return ,only exchange.

Help a lot for my five years old son