Teaching Kids About Emotions: Children’s stories dealing with anxiety and worry

All emotions serve a purpose, and fear and anxiety are actually our human protection mechanism. Worry is our body’s response that helps us to avoid danger and feeling it is totally normal. However fear and anxiety becomes an issue when those feelings begin preventing us from engaging with the world around us. In this video I share my favorite children’s story books that introduce the emotion of worry, fear and anxiety in a way that teaches kids what happens when we feel scared and anxious and provide positive coping solutions and mechanisms to help the little ones understand how to process these strong feelings.

Books featured:

Me and My Fear

Worry Says What?

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