Feeling safe: when your child feels secure
Feeling safe means feeling held. Unlike coziness, it needs a person.
What's behind this feeling
Feeling safe says: "With you, I'm okay." It's the ground on which kids can handle all the other feelings.
What can help
Small rituals are enough: the hug in the morning, the song at night, the fixed cuddle spot. Ask your child where they feel safest – and with whom.
What the book says
These texts appear exactly like this on the double page. Read them aloud while your child colors.
This is Cuddles, the safe-and-sound unicorn. Cuddles shows up when you are warm and safe – with people who love you. Then there can even be a thunderstorm outside: inside with Cuddles, nothing can happen to you.
The questions
Where do you feel Cuddles? Is everything getting warm? Is your body getting heavy and soft? Where is your very safest cuddle spot? And with whom?
The trick: The unicorn nest
Build a snuggle nest out of blankets together – that is Cuddles' home. Whoever sits inside feels safe and snug automatically. Unicorn promise.
The Feelings Unicorn Crew →
This is Cuddles, the safe-and-sound dragon. She shows up when you are warm and safe, with people who love you. Then there can even be a thunderstorm outside: inside with Cuddles, nothing can happen to you.
The questions
Where do you feel Cuddles? Is your body getting warm, heavy and soft? Where is your very safest cuddle spot? And with whom?
The trick: The wing hug
Ask someone who loves you to wrap their arms around you like two big dragon wings. Then take ten slow breaths together. Cuddles' home is not a place – it is a person. And it comes with you everywhere.
The Feelings Dragon Crew →Feeling safe 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.
