Storybox Playlist: Feel All the Feels
The job of raising little ones involves a lot of big emotions — theirs and your own. It can be overwhelming to help children navigate feelings that they, most likely, don’t understand yet. As an adult, you’ve experienced joy, anger, sadness, fear, and just feeling plain grumpy again and again (and again). You may still find it hard to figure out how you really feel on a lot of days. How many times have you answered the question “How are you?” with “Good!” — even when you’re not?
So how do you show your children that it’s okay to feel all these feelings? How do you help them identify their feelings? And how can you help make your kids more comfortable sharing them?
This collection was created to help address some of the sticky ins-and-outs around feelings. Perfect for even the youngest Sparklers, these stories follow Martin, Sylvia, Kiddo the Koala, Libby, and more as they figure out ways to accept, identify, and share their feelings. Listen together and start the conversation around feelings in your household. Who knows? You may just find you get a little more than “Good!” when you ask your kids how they are doing.
Listening Time: 1 hour and 33 minutes
Feeding the Storm
A Newfoundland wolf teaches Clancy how to embrace and express his feelings in order to improve his mood.
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Wrappings
With the help of the apprentice at Nature School, Martin realizes what he is feeling — he is missing his sister, Sylvia.
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Kiddo the Koala
Kiddo the koala is a very expressive little one. Luckily he has a very patient momma who is patient through all his feelings…
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Finder’s Club
Libby is curious about the sad feelings she has about Morgan and Juan Paco working together … without her.
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Butterflies
When Martin prepare to recite a poem in front of an audience, he learns that the fluttery feeling in his belly is called…
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About the authors
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Suzanne Loring
Creative ContributorA New England girl at heart, Suzanne hails from the Green Mountains of Vermont where she rides boards and bikes, climbs rocks, and runs trails with her two boys, husband, and pup, Jango. She can usually be found reading a book or writing (and rewriting) her first novel.
