Help Kids Learn Feelings with Meet the Feeling Friends!

Learning our feelings is something we are already working on with Graham. It is important that kids are able to identify what they are feelings and I think it is important to start working on it as early as you can!

Karen D. Cuthrell (K.K.) co-created the Feeling Friends nearly 15 years ago out of response to help educate her own young daughter. She covers the 12 primary feelings universal to all: love, joy, worry, anger, sadness, happiness, loneliness, grumpiness, shyness, panic, caution, and confidence. Each feeling is identified with its own unique character. I love that it is done this way since all kids are so different and are going to identify with some feelings more strongly than others.



The book, Meet the Feeling Friends, takes you on a journey to Feeling Free Island where you are encouraged to meet the 12 feelings! Each Feeling Friend talks about who they are and ways they deal with their feeling. For example: "I'm Angie the Angry Tiger. I use words when I get mad. No hitting, no pushing, no kicking, no biting. Even when I am angry, there is never any fighting!" I love that Meet the Feeling Friends not only identifies the feeling, but that it offers the acceptable ways to deal with the emotions.

Meet the Feeling Friends retails for about $15.99 hardcover and $12.99 softcover. There is also a CD filled with fun songs about feelings that retails for $12.99.