Janan CainThe Way I Feel

My daughter started reading this book at daycare she liked it so much got her one for home. It’s read regularly!!

My kid loves this book! The illustrations are so colorful and expressive that it's easy for my toddler (three year old) to recognize the different feelings. Sometimes we talk about the different feelings she felt that day as we read the books. She hands me this book sometimes to read to her too because she likes the illustrations so much. I found out about this book from a wonderful family/child therapist (@consciousmommy) on Instagram who had this book on her list of resources. It's been super helpful to navigate her big toddler feelings. Highly recommend.

Our 3 year old grandson is having a rough go of things lately because he feels ALL the feels--but he's acting out because he's unable to articulate the more negative/complicated ones in a healthy fashion. We just got this book, and he's already asked me to read it FOUR TIMES! He will point to certain pages and say, "That's Henry!" SO HE "GETS IT"! For us, this book turned the light on for Henry by providing validation to him in a way that he could understand. And he just LOVES the illustrations too!! As a very communicative grandmother, I can attest to the fact that this book opens the door for further, situation-specific conversations with your littles.

I am a daycare teacher and my son was having some trouble identifying his emotions so I got him this book as we have it at the center I work at…my son LOVES this book and makes faces along with the different emotions the book goes over (silly, scared, happy, sad, angry, and proud). With discussion and reading the book to my son he’s doing SO MUCH BETTER and it’s definitely a tool I’d recommend to all my work babies parents

I rarely ever write product reviews but I had to with this one because my son loves this book so much. My 3 1/2 year has been throwing temper tantrums and hitting other kids and not sharing. I didn’t know how to control it so I decided to buy him a book about feelings because he loves reading books at night before bed. He instantly loved this book about feelings. He asked us to read it 3 times the first night, he paused at the angry page and started talking about all the times when he got angry. It’s helps us, including me, address the anger issue on the spot and I see him immediately calm down seconds after I ask if he’s angry and what is he angry about. He’s been requesting the feelings book every night and we even spent 30 minutes one night looking for the book because he wouldn’t go to bed without reading it. I’m so happy I bought this and it’s really allowed us to talk about some feelings he has been holding in.

It is a great book and my daughter likes it, but I wish they hadn’t left pages out of the board book. My daughter is two and having a few more feeling words in the book would be helpful even at such a young age. I believe one of the missing feelings is frustrated and we talk about this feeling a lot, so it would be nice if the board book depicted it.

Before my daughter was even born I read a lot about how important it is to help small children identify emotions so we got this book. It has been fantastic. I am not kidding when I say that my 19 month old pulls this out to read with us frequently when she is having a day that she is feeling all the feels. I read the book with great emotion in my voice to help her link the emotion word to sounds. And sure enough, because we have read this book since she was tiny, we have been reminded to help her label her emotions from the time she started showing them. Just recently (at only 19 months old!) she has started telling us (with words!) when she is “sad” or “angry”. As pitiful as it is to hear that my child say she is sad or angry, it’s so much better to have her learning to articulate her feelings than to scream or throw things. Love the way this book has helped us teach her about emotions! As she gets older we will graduate up to the full version (currently using the board book)!

My 18 mo old requests this book every day. She loves hearing and seeing me act out each emotion. I catch her reading it to herself and acting out the pages. This has been a really good starting point to talk about different feelings, what they may sound and look like, examples of those feelings during the day, etc. I try to give one or two examples of feelings my kiddo expressed during the day while reading the book, " remember this morning how frustrated you were when trying to put on your shoes?" Sometimes I will act out a few emotions during the day and say, which feeling is this? I have seen other negative reviews about the book, but you get what you put into it. It's a good starting point but it's up to you to give it more subtance. I also appreciate the end of the book that has some of these suggestions.