If anyone isn’t treating me right when I’m having a tantrum, I can show them this, sometimes it’s the simple things that are the miracles.
Oh and my favourite is the blue creature – is it a rhinoceros or a dragon or an otodus megalodon?
I’m so glad you made this, Marion
I love how the illustrations really bring this to life and make it engaging for children.
It helped me embrace them as a natural and essential human expression for healing.
It talks about feelings.
I have tantrums sometimes and when my mum listens to my feelings I feel much better.
This book will help other children understand that tantrums are not bad.
We have both experienced the “storm” of tantrums together and we had a lot of compassion for Teddy, Tarin, and their mother.
Since I had a similar approach to Alex’s tantrums we could see ourselves in mum’s and Teddy’s place and it was quite reassuring.
This book is a wonderful illustration of how big and scary tantrums may look but how beneficial giving space to the feelings to be expressed is for everyone!
A deeply affirming story that invites families to embrace the wild energy of bedtime with trust and connection.
Remi asks for Calm Down Bob every night!
My husband and I both read it to her – she wants it read to her more than once!
I’m in love.
The illustrations are SO divine and the story is gorgeous.
Such a beautiful reminder to us as parents to trust the intelligence of our little ones when our culture and personal conditioning call for something so radically different.
Thank you for gifting this piece of art into the world!
My eldest daughter burst into tears and started sobbing halfway through Calm Down Bob Before Bed.
My second daughter didn’t want to read I Love You However You Feel at first, because she didn’t want to read a book with flowers, yuck!
But she became open to it once she saw the frustrated flower.
Then as I read on, she started crying and wailing too.
At the end, my youngest daughter opened up the pages she loved the most, which were of course the mum and dad bear holding the baby bear and also the colourful pillows too.
I love that this book opened up space in the room to have them express their feelings, even though it was painful for me to see them have painful feelings! Thank you so much!
We all really enjoyed your books.
So grateful to have these as resources in our home.
It’s fun as she’s raised with Aware Parenting and would say “we do that!” “I do that with dad!”
She also just saw the dentist yesterday and she was so thrilled Bob played dentist with his dad too.
When I asked her what her favourite part was, she said “the page where he cried”
Thank you for writing this – I’ll be recommending it lots.
I asked her if there’s anything she’d like me to share with you and she said “I love it! I love my book.”
Yes, really we love it so much and it is absolutely beautiful.
It’s already a favourite in our house.
P.S. He actually brought me the book and said “Mummy, can you read me the feelings book again?”
I could hear my daughter reading a story to her dollies this morning and when I went in to take a peek I noticed it was I Love You However You Feel!!
She was willing for me to take a photo and send to you!!
Makes my heart sing!!
Hope it brings a smile to you, too!
When it arrived I chose it to read to my 4yo and 2yo that night and the next.
Then every other night after that, they have chosen it to read together before bed.
Thank you again!
I purchased your new children’s book on Amazon as soon as you posted about it.
We (my husband, almost 5 yo and 14 mo) have been reading it a couple of times a week as part of our night time reading.
When our 14 month old is having his pre-day nap cry release, I soothingly say some of the lines I’ve memorised from the book and he always pauses his crying and looks deep into my eyes as I say it.
It’s so beautiful!
Even our eldest will occasionally say, “I welcome all your feelings” or “I love you however you feel” when the baby is crying.