How do we teach kids about emotions and feelings?Openly, honestly, and using terminology that we can incorporate into our everyday conversations with our kids.This book is a fabulous educational resource that uses colors and the emotional "up and downs" in every day to talk about how to understand and identify emotions - and why that's so important.Identifying emotions and where they're felt in the body is a vital skill for kids and adults alike and is the first step toward emotional regulation.This is important book is the first in Mighty + Bright's highly anticipated "Emotions" series, and introduces the concept of emotional regulation.This book explains the emotional experience in an easy-to-understand way and incorporates scientific findings such as "Name it to Tame it," the Window of Tolerance (developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD, co-author of "The Whole Brain Child"), and the Zones of Regulation, an educational method used in many schools.This book covers: The role our bodies and brains play in emotion;The purpose of emotion in our lives, and the concept of high energy emotions (like anger or anxiety) and low energy emotions (like sadness or depression);The desire for unpleasant emotions to go away, and why they're helpful;Why emotions happen, including how our thoughts can cause them;The benefit of naming our emotions;How to begin understanding our own emotional experience;Common worries about BIG emotions and how to safely cope with them;Different people's different reactions to the same experience;An opening to discuss anxiety and depression with kids;The idea that no day is all "good" or all "bad."