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. Paperback – July 23, 2017

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!

I read it last night to my kids, I thought the book was a great way for them to understand there body language and what there body needs ! The only problem was one page was stuck to the other at the top, the words are still readable.

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!

Will buy more from this author…. Bought it for my 4yr old grandson! Simple, practice exercises, covers alot!

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 for supporting body awareness and connecting to our feelings and our sensory systems . Has great real life examples kids can try to help them understand concepts being taught .

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.

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