Understand How You Feel: My Kind of Family - Softcover

Rhodes, Shannon D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491044659 ISBN 13: 9781491044650

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

My Kind of Family is about helping children better understand their emotions, develop self esteem and learn good values. This book series asks children and their caregivers to fill in names, select pronouns and color the details of illustrations in order to create books reflective of their own families. Through customization, the series offers a sense of comfort and familiarity as they allow a child and their caregiver to become party of the story.

For age 0-2: It is suggested the parent completes the story by adding appropriate names and selecting appropriate pronouns. Customization is not necessary but can be completed if desired. Read just like any other story to your child.

For age 3-5: It is suggested that the parent input the caregiver names and select appropriate pronouns with the child’s help. Share responsibilities of customizing the characters. For fun, let your child complete you and you the child. You can begin using the questions in the back for this age group.

For age 6-8: Let the child complete the book on their own and share it with you. Discuss how and why they chose to customize the characters the way they did. Use the questions in the back to encourage communication. This age is great to help younger siblings customize and read their book.

The first installment in the series, Understand How You Feel, presents the concepts of feelings and emotions, and encourages children to better understand how they feel and to talk about their feelings with their caregivers, whoever they may be.

About this title

About the Author

After years of keeping journals, diaries and various spiral bound books of ideas, Shannon Rhodes sought her dream with this first self-published children's book.  Rhodes was inspired to write the series by the many facets of her personal life. As a survivor of a childhood trauma, she understands the value and need for open communication during a child's early years. 

As part of a two mom family, Rhodes's daughter asked why her family didn't look like the families in her favorite books. With a bachelor's degree and over eighteen years as a successful businesswoman, Rhodes took her years of journals, ideas and creativity and created My Kind of Family. A company dedicated to helping children create their family in the story. The series includes six books, all where the child and caregiver are gender, skin tone, eye color and hair neutral, allowing YOUR child to create a family that is just like YOURS. 

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491044659
• ISBN 13: 9781491044650
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Walker Tina L
• Number of pages: 38