When children are young their emotions come in peaks and valleys. Sometimes they’re super excited, sometimes they’re sad, and sometimes they lose control and express themselves by throwing a temper tantrum. These outbursts of emotions are common for parents and kids of all walks of life and can be leveraged by parents who want to teach impulse control, improved behavior, and better mindfulness. … mindfulness.
That’s why Matt’s swirly world was written to help parents understand the “why” behind a tantrum as well as what’s going on inside their child’s brain when they’re acting out, feeling scared, or reacting to stressful situations.
An adorable journey featuring a mother and her young son, this book is a great reminder about how all emotions are accepted and that proper behaviors can be learned by kids and taught by moms and dads. In fact, your love is the perfect space where emotions can be processed, expressed, and shared together.
In this book parents will learn how mindfulness helps kid’s create better coping skills, but also a variety of other useful tools, including:
- How love can be used to process emotions and support positive behaviors
- Why feelings of anger and frustration come and go and are non-threatening
- How a calm voice and demeanor can soothe a child and minimize meltdowns
- Providing children relief from stress, anxiety, or big feelings and emotions
- How children often mimic the behaviors of their mothers and fathers
- Moving forward and adapting to behavioral changes in the future
This is an opportunity to learn and grow as a parent while teaching your child valuable mindfulness and self-control skills they can use long into adulthood. And it should be the first book you read on tantrums, emotions, and how to inspire positive behaviors each and every day.
When you need help better understanding why your child feels or acts they way they do in times of crisis, or you just want to connect with them on a deeper level, learn more about temper tantrums and emotional control with Matt’s swirly world – Helping Parents Understand Tantrums to Create Mindful Kids.
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Nice story to help a child control their frustrations. It had a fun feel and easy to understand. Illustration are great.
Matt’s Swirly World is a book about teaching/showing children how to react and that temper tantrums are not acceptable. The illustrations are awesome and are visuals of what the author is saying in the book. I feel this will be a great help for many parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and teachers. I think it explains things in a way that children will understand. I also think with the great illustrations that it would be a great book for children who are autistic or special needs. Often they may be delayed developmentally and don’t understand the words, but they can understand pictures.
This is a fantastic way to explain feelings to children on their level. Really loved the colorful illustrations. Easy to read and understand at any age.
I like the premise of this one, but the delivery left much to be desired. The way anger and feelings were described in the story were too advanced for most of the age group the book is intended for. The kid in the story seems way too young to understand what the mom is telling him. I had my daughter read it and even though she’s in the “target audience” age, there was little interest for her as well.
The drawings are done well.
This book provides a method to help young ones to learn how to handle tantrums and relief streets anxiety. Any parent or grandparent that has told a young child “no” has been a first hand witness to a tantrum. Developing young children don’t yet have the coping skills when they can’t do or get what they want.
This book provides a training option to help a young child reign in and control their tantrum. As a grandparent, looking for an option that will help put a halt to the “blow out” is an on-going task. It would seem that reading and talking about the book and Matt frequently and when everyone is calm would be necessary. Cute book and very relatable to a young child. I received the book for my honest review.
A cute and fun little kids book. Matt didn’t want to go gome from the park. His Mom teaches him about anger and how to manage it. Really cute. The illustrations are fun but I think it’s more suited for a different age range. 3/5
Madeline Matthews did an amazing job with the book. Not only will kids be entertained by the beautiful illustrations but will also be taught a very important lesson we all could use help on, controlling your anger. The book is done in a way the children will be happy to read and learn a new lesson.
Cute book that explains how anger cam be chased away by controlling your inner self. Really a good tool to help parents to talk to any child
This book has amazing illustrations! It starts off great, but from there it just wasn’t for me. When I read the description, I thought the book would be either a children’s book showing how the child feels during these episodes and maybe coaching them through the feeling or a book for adults dealing with children who have these episodes and tips on how to connect and coach the child through. I thought it was a little wordy for a child to connect with the directions and didn’t have the straight forward wording I would associate with a book targeted to adults. The idea of the story is great and I think it would be very helpful if it was worded differently.
I read this for my daughter (7) the other night as a bedtime story. We talked about it afterward and she’s in love with the metaphors in it and wants me to use the wording more similar, than our usual conversations. I believe her counselor (my daughter has adjustment disorder) would love it too, as well as how eager she is to read/use it!
Cute book to help kids deal with anger and disappointment. Written in a way that they can understand and process. I am going to read it to my kids and try to help them learn this way too
Matt’s Swirly World is a creative way to explain feelings to children. Also helps adults understand how to deal with feelings. This one focuses on tantrums. I really loved the fun and bright illustrations. Easy to read and understand.
The animation was cute, this book would not interest any 3 to 5 year old I’ve come in contact with. This wouldn’t interest the 7, 9 and 11 year olds in my family. Good concept but needs to be geared toward children not adults.