When My Worries Get Too Big!: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live With Anxiety Paperback – July 8, 2013

A MUST-HAVE for every person who works with kids, every special educator, and every parent or grandparent! I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist who works with kids diagnosed with all sorts of developmental disorders, and I use this book or similar discussions with almost all of them. I'm also using the techniques with myself, since I realize I'm not especially good at telling when I'm about to crack under pressure. I just purchased a copy for my brother and his wife to use with their daughters, one of whom is very emotionally and physically sensitive. Super wonderful excellent resource. Many many thanks to the author. I recommend the other resources by this author, as well, such as "A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control".

I had a couple of students that nodded their heads and seemed to relate to the story. After a class discussion, they were able to come away with helpful ideas to manage their own stresses. This book would be age appropriate for elementary age children. With that being said, older children have also been know to gain insights from picture books!

My daughter's therapist suggested this workbook to me to help her learn how to cope with her anxiety and this book has definitely been a God send. My daughter loves to work on this book with me and often times she is asking me to pull it out for her instead of me asking her. My daughter has had a hard time communicating her feelings and this book is definitely helping her do that. She has even asked me for more workbooks just like this one. I finally feel like we are making progress with her anxiety. I highly recommend this book to anyone who either works with kids or has kids that are dealing with anxiety.

I can see how this book would help children with behavioral issues (throwing, meltdowns, etc), bit I was hoping this would help my child with anxiety. Her worries are really too big, but this book is not directed at those types of "worries. It seems like it's written for children that don't know how to handle anger and disappointment who then fall into emotional fits because their emotion is too large for them to know what to do with. My child has a "worrier" mind. She thinks of all the bad possibilities or pulls up bad memories like blood being drawn by a nurse and doesn't know how to stop her mind and slow it down. I was hoping this would help me find ways to calm her, but it didn't.I ended up giving it to a friend who works in a kinder behavioral class (children with autism, ADHD, etc) and she thinks it has a lot of great information for her kids.

As an elementary school counselor this is a wonderful book to use with kids from kindergarten to fifth grade. It helps kids identify their worries by ranking them from 1-5. It also allows you to help kids with strategies to help them cope with their worries.

This book makes me want to cry. It's rare to find things that my son can identify well with. We have reached for this book several times since purchasing it. The little drawings are goofy and cute and the book as an overall statement is highly relatable.

It's a cute book. It would have been nice to have a recommended age range. My son is 10 and this is a bit juvenile for him.

This book has been so helpful with my autistic son! He has been getting angry and escalating very quickly and not knowing why or how to calm down. This book has taught his different stages to his anger and how to recognize them and calm down. His teachers now own a copy and love it too!

Really good book my child loves it, fast delivery and well packaged.

A good book for helping children with anxieties to offload their problems and overcome their anxieties. My wife uses this in her psychology practice.

Not much of a story. This is really an activity book to work through with a therapist. Not what I was expecting.

Aswome resource, use it often In the classroom

Full of helpful ideas and strategies. Tried and tested by our pupils. It really works