Chloe the Moody Manatee

Brittany Stevens-Pollard M.Ed LASAC

Description

This book is designed to help readers engage with their kids and help them get their needs met. It is a cute story that helps show that behind every behavior is a feeling, and behind every feeling is an unmet need.
Chloe the Moody Manatee is a story about a young manatee with big feelings. Sometimes, she struggles with knowing what her feelings are, so she needs the help of her Papa to help her navigate what she is feeling and solve what she needs. Chloe learns that behind every behavior is a feeling and behind every feeling is an unmet need.

Sujets

• Social Themes
• Juvenilee Fiction
• Feelings
• Emotions

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 06 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665578899
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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ISBN: 978-1-6655-7888-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-7890-5 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-7889-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022923654



Published by AuthorHouse 01/05/2023
Let the colors show you

which mood to read:

Red —Angry

Orange —Hungry

Yellow —Nervous

Green —Scared

Blue —Sad

Indigo —Tired

Purple —Lonely
Letter to the readers of this book:
This book seeks to help therapists, parents, and guardians of children understand and really listen to their children. It guides them to look beyond the behaviors of the child and beyond the assumptions they make (for example, “oh, she’s just being moody”) as a means to just make the behaviors stop. These patterns we use as parents teach our children that they are not understood and that their emotions are an inconvenience or burden to their guardians. They may be the patterns we were taught when we were children, so we pass them along without recognizing them as unhelpful now that we are adults. All feelings are signals, and children’s behaviors are their voices to express unmet needs. In this book, we meet a little manatee named Chloe who has very big feelings, and it is the job of her papa to help her find out what her feelings are and to meet her unmet needs.
Children’s feelings are not burdens, and children are not meant to just get over them. Rather, expressing their feelings is the beginning of them trying to get their needs met. Before they have the ability to rationally advocate for themselves, they cry. We focus on the crying, the behavior. But crying is the expression of the feeling being felt. It is a conversation the child is having to his or her guardians, asking them to help solve a problem without using words.
As guardians, it is our job to help our children determine what they need and meet those needs as a way to model for them how to help themselves and others. If we teach them to listen to their bodies, feel their feelings, and not try to make them go away, they become advocates for themselves and for their future children.
So this is the intention; read this book for them, to them, or because of them. Reparent your inner child to listen to the feelings, and advocate for your unmet needs too.
In all things, when you feel stuck or lost, ask yourself what the behaviors are telling you. Then you become an advocate for those unmet needs too.


This book is dedicated to my stepdaughter, my Waning Gibbous, Zoephina Eugene. You helped me create Chloe with your big feelings and I hope you never ever stop feeling them. Here is to you, Zoey. I love you.