Calming the Chaos: A Kid’s Book About the Amygdala
Introduce your child to the amygdala, their brain’s alarm system, with How to Train Your Amygdala.
Learn simple, kid-friendly strategies to calm down and manage anxiety.
This is a must-have for your home library.
The colorful picture book explains the amygdala and offers practical tools to help kids feel calmer and more confident.
Imagine having a tiny alarm system in your brain that sometimes goes off when it shouldn’t.
That’s what the amygdala does! This book introduces kids to their amygdala and explains how it can sometimes get confused.
With the help of this friendly guide, children can learn how to calm their amygdala and manage their emotions in a healthy way.
Why This is a Great Book to Have in Your Home Library:
- Kid-Friendly Explanations: The book breaks down complex concepts into simple terms that children can easily understand.
- Practical Tools: It offers a variety of strategies, such as deep breathing and visualization, to help kids manage stress and anxiety.
- Empowering Message: The book empowers children by teaching them that they have control over their emotions.
- Supportive for Parents: The additional content for adults provides valuable information and resources to reinforce the book’s message.
Help Your Child Develop Essential Coping Skills
This fun and informative book is a must-have for every home library.
Order your copy of How to Train Your Amygdala today!
How to Train Your Amygdala
Free Spirit Publishing
isbn 979-8885543736
Pub Date 2/20/24
Synopsis
Your amygdala works hard to protect you from danger, but what about when it gets things wrong? This amusing character-driven narrative helps children learn to calm their amygdala and control their fight-flight-freeze impulses.
The amygdala is the brain’s alarm system that alerts for danger, but sometimes it gets things wrong and needs help calming down. In this picture book, young readers receive kid-friendly information about the amygdala from the amygdala, how it can sometimes get confused, and simple ideas to calm and train it.
The amygdala in How to Train Your Amygdala makes complicated concepts accessible to children so they can understand their bodies, practice impulse control, and boost their self-regulation. “You have probably never seen me before, but I am right here in your brain. There is an amygdala in everyone’s brain. It’s true! All humans have one. Many other animals do too.”
Throughout the book, the amygdala and the reader practice anxiety-calming and mindfulness strategies such as deep breathing, visualization, and progressive relaxation. With anxiety on the rise among children, learning how to calm the amygdala is a critical life skill.
Additional content at the back of the book includes an amygdala’s training playbook for kids and more information for adults to help reinforce the book’s message.
Author
Anna Housley Juster, Ph.D., LICSW
Illustrator
Cynthia Cliff
Suggested Ages
4 to 8 years old
Preschool to 3rd Grade
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