How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear?: A Domestic Violence Storybook

Description

This is a gentle story to help children aged 18 months to 6 years who have lived with violence in their home. Baby Bear lives in a home with the Big Bears, and loves to chase butterflies and make mud pies - they make Baby Bear's tummy fill with sunshine. Then, one night, Baby Bear hears a big storm downstairs in the house and in the morning, Baby Bear's tummy starts to feel grey and rainy. How will such a small bear cope with these big new feelings? This sensitive, charming storybook is written to help children who have lived with violence at home to begin to explore and name their feelings. Accompanied by notes for adults on how to use each page of the story to start conversations, it also features fun games and activities to help to understand and express difficult emotions. It will be a useful book for social workers, counsellors, domestic violence workers and all grown-ups working with children.

Author description

Jane Evans is a Trauma Parenting Specialist and Freelance Trainer. She has used her experiences of working directly with children, young people and parents over many years as a respite foster carer, a domestic violence parenting worker, a registered child minder and a family support worker to create this much requested book. She wrote the book in response to feedback from parents, carers and workers who wanted a sensitive story to support young children who have grown up around family violence.

Table of contents

1. Dear Child.; 2. Dear Grown-up.; 3. How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear?; 4. Page-by-page Guide to Using the Baby Bear Story.; 5. Activities and Games to Encourage Children to Explore and Learn about Feelings.