Where Does the Big Mad Go?: A Calm Down Book for Kids With Big Angry Feelings

About this book

One safe step on every page, for the moment a big mad grows. When anger gets hot and fast, this book gives your child something to do, not just words about it. When something is not fair, a big mad can grow hot in a chest faster than words can explain. Anger is not a bad feeling, and your child is not a bad child for having it. Zoe shows your child safe, physical ways to let the mad out and help it get smaller. One step per page, made for the moment the mad feels too big. Designed for ages 4 to 8, and especially for autistic, sensory, and big feeling children. ONE SAFE STEP PER PAGE • A big mad rises, and your child sees it happening in their own body • Eleven safe steps, one to a page, doable when words are hard • The mad cools and shrinks, and your child sees that they did it, and stayed safe THE SAFE WAYS TO LET THE MAD OUT Children practice: notice the mad, say "I am mad," take a dragon breath, blow it out slow, stomp their feet, push on the wall, squeeze and let go, go to a calm spot, count it down, hold something soft, sip cool water, and find a grown up. Concrete and doable, never clinical. WHAT IS INSIDE • 30 gentle, full color illustrated pages, one safe step on each • A How to Use guide for grown ups, written for real moments • My Mad Plan, a page your child circles to keep the steps that work for their body • A closing celebration page • Soft, low stimulation watercolor art made for sensory sensitive eyes • A calm, predictable page every single time SKILLS DEVELOPED • Managing anger and big, hot feelings • Naming a feeling as it rises • Safe physical release and self regulation • Impulse control and calming down • Asking a trusted adult for help • Confidence that a hard feeling will pass WHY PARENTS CHOOSE CALM LEARNING A calm page produces calm focus. Every Calm Learning book is made for the child who needs less, not more. Fewer distractions. Clearer prompts. Gentler illustrations. One thing per page, a predictable structure, and soft art that lowers anxiety instead of raising it. This is not a book that tells an angry child to just calm down. It is a book you can open in the middle of a hard moment and actually use. PERFECT FOR • Ages 4 to 8 • Autistic, ADHD, highly sensitive, and easily overwhelmed children • Meltdowns, frustration, and big angry moments • A calm down corner at home • Parents, grandparents, therapists, and counselors • A gentle, screen free gift for a child who feels everything loudly ABOUT THE BIG FEELINGS BOOKS This is the fifth book in The Big Feelings Books, a Calm Learning series that gives young children real, physical tools for hard feelings, all with the same calm design. Also in the series: When I Feel Too Big, for overwhelm and sensory days. My Body Has Big Feelings, for busy, buzzy bodies. Where Do the Big Feelings Go?, for worries and what ifs. When Everything Changes, for change and transitions.

What's inside

• anger management for kids
• calm down book for kids
• feelings book for kids
• emotional regulation for kids
• autism books for children
• self regulation for children
• big feelings book