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

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.

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!

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.

My 8 year old son often refers back to this book. The book explains so clearly how we feed into our fears and also how to over come them. My child was able to relate to the story and immediately felt like someone understood what he was going through. When his fears pop back up we often quote from the book. So glad we purchased this. It definitely helped calm his worries.

This was a perfect gift for my child, who worries about stuff and sometimes needs a way to calm down. This isn't just a book, it has pages that need to be filled in, so it can be personalized. Your child's own worries can be listed out. I think the things the book says to do are easy for a child and can be done anywhere. We re-read it sometimes as a reminder.

Using with primary males with autism who find talking about feelings difficult. Would be nice if they left blanks for kids and teachers to write their specific concerns. My 3 students enjoy rereading and draw different pictures each time, except for the one who hates to draw. He will talk about feelings, however, a huge change.

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!