Christi Porter / Karen Porter
This book shows how two children honor their feelings, and decide what to do with the anger they feel. Anne and Amy’s Anger helps children allow their emotions to guide their actions, while they give themselves time to decide what to do. The creativity and sensitivity in this book empowers children to think about how emotion affects them. Since Dr. Kich is an imaginary 'Emotatude' doctor, there is freedom to create your own dialogue with your child in your own creative way.If you ask your child to close their eyes and try to see and feel the emotion they have, they will be able to draw or paint their own ‘emotatudes’ after reading these books. By acknowledging this inner life, you will give your child coping skills. Seeing how other children cope with anger gives children space to imagine how their feelings act in their lives. story will help them explore how they can express anger in their own way.So, the next time you want to push positive behavior in an emotional situation, stop yourself and start acknowledging the feelings that are around your child’s experience. Read more books in the Emotatude Series. It will give you and your child something to consider so you won't ignore your emotional lives. These books will help you ask questions about what needs to be done in emotionally charged situations. Ultimately it may even may help bring more self-control into their lives.Dr. Kich says 'Children who experience anger need coping skills to guide them through these difficult moments.' His research on Emotatudes will give children more emotional agility to help them build awareness, acceptance, and power in their lives.. Emotatudes are little vibratory beings that display what emotions look like, sound like, and act like. Emotatudology gives our feelings names and even paint pictures of what they look like. We really can't control how many emotional experiences we will have. We can control how we will deal with them. Read this book to find out how Dr. Kich intervenes to bring productive action into a situation filled with anger. The book 'Anne and Amy's Anger Emotatude' explains how anger can be used in powerful ways. It is one of the many Emotatude books that help us deal with our feelings. Other Emotatude books are 'Crandle's Conniptions', 'How Gregory Deals with a Case of Grief', 'The Secret of Warm Fuzzies', 'How to be Heebie Jeebie Fre'e, and 'What to do When you Get the Bejeebers Scared Out of You'. 3
