Calm: when your child settles down
After all the loud feelings, there are quiet ones too. Kids need to get to know calm before they can find their way back to it.
What's behind this feeling
Calm makes the tummy soft and the eyes heavy. It's the place you come back to after a storm of feelings.
What can help
Practice calm when things are good, not only in the chaos: hands on the tummy, breathe in and out together like a cloud. Then the body knows the way.
What the book says
These texts appear exactly like this on the double page. Read them aloud while your child colors.
This is Ommo, the calm unicorn. Ommo shows up when everything is good and soft and quiet – then your breath gets slow like its little clouds. Ommo is the favorite guest in the evening.
The questions
Where do you feel Ommo? Is your tummy getting soft? Are your eyes getting heavy? Where in the world do you feel the very calmest?
The trick: Cloud breathing
Put your hands on your tummy like Ommo. Breathe in – your tummy becomes a big cloud. Breathe out – the cloud floats away. Five times, nice and slow.
The Feelings Unicorn Crew →
This is Ommo, the calm dragon. He shows up when everything is good and soft and quiet – then your breath gets slow like his little smoke clouds. Ommo is the favorite guest in the evening.
The questions
Where do you feel Ommo? Is your tummy getting soft? Are your eyes getting heavy? Where in the world do you feel the very calmest?
The trick: Cloud breathing
Put your hands on your tummy like Ommo. Breathe in – your tummy becomes a big cloud. Breathe out – the cloud floats away. Five times, nice and slow.
The Feelings Dragon Crew →Calm and 23 more feelings to color
Every feeling on its own double page, with a read-aloud text, questions and a trick. For ages 3 and up.
