Böcker av Karen White Porter

Have you or someone love ever been excited? Did you feel too excited when you saw too many fun things to do? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a five friends Ada, Ben, Cal, Deb and Ed who go to a birthday party. Ed gets too excited. He crawls under the table, rolls down the hill, and lays on the floor when it is time to play a game. Ed's friends help him realize he is too excited and help him cope with how he feels. Explore how it can help to have friends understand you and get creative to find new things to do when you get too excited. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets too excited sometimes, and there are ways cope with it. This is the twelfth book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel? When?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel.

Confusion is hard to cope with. Everyone wants to be clear about rules and feel secure about boundaries in their life, but we all need to learn that rules change in different situations. Deb feels confused when the rules about toys and food change at school. Ada wants to help her share her birthday treats with classmates, but they both are surprised to learn the rules about that are different at school than they are at home. Ben, Fred, and Cal explain how the rules are different, and Deb is left to cope with her confusion. See how she copes with her confusion in this Book nine of the I Feel ... When ... book series. When you read the complete series you will see how many monster friends play together in a way to help everyone cope with their feelings.This colorful book opens the door to discussing confusion in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways.

Do you ever feel loved? It feels warm and fuzzy inside when someone you care about shows you that they love you. Everyone wants to be loved. Exploring how to express love and share with others is so important. We feel love when reaches out to us in a loving caring way. Ed wants to show his love for his mom, and he shares this with his friends. They decide to find a way to show their moms how much they love them. Book twenty-two of the 'I Feel ... When ...' book series shows how many monster friends play together in a way to show their love for their moms. This colorful book opens the door to discussing love in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways. Many of the words in the book are basic sight words. Sight words are a subset of high-frequency words that do not sound the way they are spelled and are therefore not easily learned. Identifying these words and then finding them in the story will build literacy. Using words that students are familiar with helps them build fluency and flow as they read. Teaching students to memorize these words, by sight, helps them read faster with confidence. As you read through this series the young reader can develop mastery of all the sight words. Each story also contains a feeling word to build emotional literacy.

Do you ever feel lonely? It feels bad to be excluded. Everyone wants to be included, but you need to learn how to play and share with others. We feel lonely when we feel removed from a group. Ed feels lonely when the others do not want to play with his ball. Ada wants to play box ball with the others. Ben finds a ball that fits in the box and so does Cal and Deb. Book twentythree of the 'I Feel? When?' book series shows how many monster friends play together in a way to help everyone feel included. Ed copes with his loneliness by curling up in a ball on the hill. The other friends finally see something is wrong and invites him to play with the group. They work out their feelings and finally play box ball together. This colorful book opens the door to discussing loneliness in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways. Many of the words in the book are basic sight words. Sight words are a subset of high-frequency words that do not sound the way they are spelled and are therefore not easily learned. Identifying these words and then finding them in the story will build literacy. Using words that students are familiar with helps them build fluency and flow as they read. Teaching students to memorize these words, by sight, helps them read faster with confidence. As you read through this series the young reader can develop mastery of all the sight words. Each story also contains a feeling word to build emotional literacy.

Have you or someone love ever had to cope with embarrassment? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a friend who feels of embarrassed. Ada is embarrassed that she can not do what her friends can do. Because they are friends with feelings, they help her try a new way to do what they do without making her feel more embarrassed. Read this story to find out how these friends help each other and cope with embarrassment. See how they manage to work out their feelings after getting embarrassed. Explore how it can help to have friends when you get embarrassed. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets embarrassed sometimes, and it is ok to get embarrassed. This is the third book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel ... When ...' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel. Thinking about the feelings out of your own personal context is a healthy way to build emotional vocabulary that will be there when you need it. Now learning to read can be part of thoughtful interpretation of the feelings of others using emotion vocabulary and nonviolent communication, as well as a skill building exercise.

Have you or someone love ever felt sad? Did you feel sad when your friends left and did not play with you? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of Deb her mom and her three friends Ada, Ben and Cal who want to go swim at the beach with Deb. Deb cannot go because she has been sick and had a fever. Each time a friend comes to the door to invite Deb to go swim, her mother lets them know that she is too sick to go. Deb wants to go swimming with her friends and feels sad because they all left and went to the beach. Deb tells her mother that she feels sad when her friends go away. Deb's mother explains there are fun things she can do while she is sick. Deb talks about her sadness and how to cope with it. Finally, she copes with her feelings. Will she play a game? Will she find fun things to do inside? Read this story to find out how Deb copes with sadness and resolves her problem. See how she manages to observe and communicate her feelings of sadness after her friends leave. Explore how it can help to have friends understand and care about you and get creative to find new things to do when you get sad. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets sad sometimes, and there are always ways to cope with your feelings.This is the sixth book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel? When?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel.

Have you or someone love ever been bored? Did you feel bored when you could not find something fun to do? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a three friends Ada, Deb and Ed who get stuck inside together because it is raining. They and cannot get their toys because they are wet. They want to be outside playing but it is too dangerous because of the lightning, thunder, and rain. Ada and Deb complain that there is nothing to do. Then suddenly, Ed comes in the room and tells them there are fun things they can do. Ada is still bored so she sits and complains about it at the table with Deb. They both cannot figure out what to do since their toys are outside. Because he is a friend with feelings, Ed shares how they can cope with their feelings. Finally, they cope with their feelings. Will they both play a game? Will they find fun things to do inside? Read this story to find out how these friends help each other and cope with boredom and resolve their problem. See how they manage to observe and communicate their feelings of boredom after getting stuck inside. Explore how it can help to have friends understand you and get creative to find new things to do when you get bored. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets bored sometimes, and there are always ways to find something constructive to do.This is the seventh book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel? When?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel.

Have you or someone love ever had to cope with anger? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a friend who feels of angry because they did not get a cookie. Ben is angry when he sees Cal eating the last cookie on the plate while all his friends got two cookies. Because they are friends with feelings, they help him try a new way to work out his anger instead of acting out inappropriately. Unfortunately Ben says and does things he regrets, but in the end he is forgiven when he works his anger out. Read this story to find out how these friends help each other and cope with anger. See how they manage to work out their feelings after getting angry. Explore how it can help to have friends understand you and be patient when you get angry. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets angry sometimes, and it is ok to get angry and tell people, but not ok to act on your anger. This is the fourth book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel ? When ?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel. Thinking about the feelings out of your own personal context is a healthy way to build emotional vocabulary that will be there when you need it. Now learning to read can be part of thoughtful interpretation of the feelings of others using emotion vocabulary and nonviolent communication, as well as a skill building exercise.

I FEEL...WHEN... book series is the first of three Pre-Primers in the Reading with Feeling Program. It provides an easy transition from reading pictures to reading printed language.It is hard to tell someone they need to blow their nose. You don't want to hurt their feelings. Yet you also want them to know why you might not want to do things with them. This book acts out a scenario typical for children who have runny noses. They explore the importance of dealing with feelings through nonviolent communication to cope with experiences in our every day lives. This is the first book in a series of 24 'I Feel When' Books that explore Love, Frustration, Calmness, Loneliness, impression, joy, Interest, Guilt, Hope, Pride, Amusement, Inspiration, Failure, Anxiety, Boredom, Disgust, Jealousy, Blues, Fear, Sadness, Anger, Overwhelm, Resentment, Excitement. Each of the books in this series is accompanied with two videos about the making of the book and an expert opinion of a counselor, and mediation specialist who has worked with children in schools to peacefully communicate their feelings with one another in respectful ways that builds self-esteem among children. Each of the twenty-four stories has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, and in each of the stories the characters talk about their feelings. They combine with the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. The printed conversation is always placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel. With this book the student sees and thinks about the feelings in the conversation as an important part of the total action of the story. The readers will also be available in Spanish and French Bilingual versions for new language learners.

This is a gentle story about a young girl coping with depression during the holiday season. Her mother takes her to counseling and she finds ways to deal with her blue feelings.