Teach impulse control to your little ones with one of the best impulse control books for kids.Embrace a science-based, yet practical and kid friendly approach to influence children behavior and reaction to everyday situations.Imagine your kids reacting calmly when asked to put an item down in the grocery store, to go home from the playing field when asked and generally to understand the situation … situation and not react impulsively.
Say yes to a beautifully illustrated story-based impulse control bookthat will aid to:
✅ improved children’s impulse control
✅ better kid’s self-regulation
✅ better understanding of everyday situations
✅ more fun and mindful parenting
▶What’s this impulsivity book for kids based on?
This kids impulse control and children behavior book is written based on the interpersonal biology, attachment parenting psychology, and no-drama discipline and it is written in verse. The story explains the benefits of brain integration and celebrates the role of connection with the primary caregiver.
Also, this impulsivity book for kid helps with your conscious parenting effort, by offering a scientific perspective on temper tantrums. The story line supports mindful parenting by explaining what happens during a tantrum.
▶Characters
Wrinkles is an adorable and well balanced elephant, and Flappy is a cute and energetic dragon who live together in wondrous world, filled with mysteries. They are special in their own way and they have super-powers. When the alarm gets triggered, Wrinkles and Flappy get separated, and their mission is in jeopardy.
▶How it works?Through these characters, this story helps children to learn about their brain, to understand their brain dynamic during a challenging situation whey big emotions are involved and a technique of integrating the ‘upstairs brain’ with the ‘down stairs brain’ which becomes the brain game for kids calm.
In this book, you will learn the two secrets that brought Flappy & Wrinkles back together, and helped them accomplish their mission.
▶What is the message in this childrens behavior book?A message for the parents: children’s brains are developing and during this time, they learn everything, including how to deal with emotions. Learning and growth can only happen once the need for safety is fulfilled.
Big emotions that arise everyday are not a palpable thing, but they are perceived and felt as a very real threat. This is why kids need help in learning how to deal with ‘big emotional situations’
▶How can this book help? It is easier for children to create copingstrategies, when they have some practical things to represent abstract notions.So children will get in touch with their more evolved part of their brain,symbolically embodied by Wrinkles; they will get to know his strengths and howto tap into this resource (an oversimplification of the prefrontal cortex).
Second, children will learn that they also hold a marvelous part of the brain, symbolically represented by Flappy, aka the reptilian brain, primarily concerned with survival.
The story line gets them separated (this is when the alarm happens); and this happens to children and parents every day:when leaving the park, when not getting the second ice-cream, when the favorite pajamas are not available etc. You know it! This story gets to see behind the scenes of a temper tantrum.
This book will enable you to look at the situation from another angle: the benefits of brain integration.
The dialog between Wrinkles and Flappy is intended to create the habit of digging deeper into finding out what happened and telling the story.
Lyrics are a fun way for children remember to ‘tell the story’ so that they learn to process events and emotions. And the beauty of it all – with practice, Wrinkles only gets stronger, which means your child improves in self-regulation!
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Love, love, LOVE the illustrations in this book. Uniquely written to help kids with impulse control. First half of the book is for the kids, last half for parents. Sure to be read again and again.
Handy illustrations and highly informative picture book centered around children on how to deal with anger issues and emotions. I would reccommend this book to all parents! I also like that the author made the words “rhyme”, i felt it was a good move on the authors part in that it may have helped to catch and keep the young readers engaging in the book!
This book is so sweet, I read it with my kids and they loved it. I think it can help a lot of children with their emotions and even how to express them in a positive way. I reccomend it to every parent or even someone thinking about having children.
Flappy, dragon, is the impulsive emotions. Wrinkles, elephant, is the calm levelheadedness. Flappy gets separated from Wrinkles when an incident occurs. When reunited, Wrinkles calmly asks questions to find out what happened and to get Flappy to relax, calm down, and think.
Great book for young children
‘How to save the dragon’ is a lovely ‘first step’ book when teaching a child about emotional control. It’s fairly short, with some rhyming couplets included in the verses that make it fun to read.
There are some words that may be too “advanced” but not SAT level vocab. Just something to keep in mind!
A book that a young child would enjoy to read.
This is perfect book for little ones just learning books perfect for story time !!!
Things the lesson and theme is pretty awesome. Only downfall is That it’s grouped from kids 4-10. I think kids at that age may struggle with some of the vocabulary . It’s cute and well illustrated though
I enjoyed reading this book. My son isn’t old enough to read or comprehend it yet. When he is this will be an awesome tool to help teach him about impulse control. I love that there are templates included that allow for hands on participation and learning. AWESOME book!
This book is a good learning tool for parents. However, what I think would be best as if a a parent read it in a counseling setting and opposed to being read to kids in school. The artwork is made for children, which is amazing. It’s beautiful colorful and kids would love it, but I wouldn’t read all the words to the child because They may not understand them. It’s giving me some insight into why my kids were the way they were when when they were little. The workbook area give parents a place to pause and see what the feeling looked like to them. All in all well written but a bit too clinical for children.
What an amazing way to help kids understand controlling their emotions! This story was so cute! I loved meeting Flappy and Wrinkles! How To Save The Dragon is a great story to sit and read and then talk to your children or grandchildren with. Help them explain how it makes them feel when things don’t go well or as they planned. Very well written and has a great message.
Very helpful story. Understanding emotional reactions is important. For both adults and children. Finding a medium to communicate this knowledge between them can be difficult.
Great book that teaches kids as well as adults in way to deal with impulse control. An issues that is common place; this book gives tools in a kind and helpful way.
Flappy and Wrinkles are good concept characters to get a child’s interest and then the aids in the back of the book will help a parent through helpung their child.
this was a cute idea to help kids deal with impulse control for the younger tots. I did feel that while this had great ideas it is more for the parents of those young tots. I wish there had been a book like this when mine was a young tot.
this was a very great book! it gives a childs brain to think . it was very well written thanks!
This is a wonderful book that helps both parent and child to learn about feelings, emotions and ways to handle them in a positive way. I feel that parents that read this book to their child/children will be more balanced. Introducing the feelings as Flappy and Wrinkles should make the child comfortable enough to relate to both of them. This would have helped me so much when my child was these ages and feel that Madeleine Matthews has written a book that should be required reading for parents and other adults who deal with young children.
I would have liked to have given this book a better review. However, the reading level is way beyond the comprehension of most 4 year olds. The concept is good, but the inconsistent rhyming makes it an awkward read.
Super cute story about dealing with emotions you dont quite understand and what to do in those situations. I enjoyed reading it and I think its a great reminder for all of us not just kids. Sometimes things are as simple as that. Enjoyed it.