Practical, fun tool for parents raising kids. Encourages obedience and emotional health, motivated by God’s love and grace.
Part of the Training Young Hearts series.
Fun lift-the-flap board book that helps small children to deal with their emotions in a healthy way.
This helpful and engaging training tool will help parents to teach their kids that God made them with feelings. Emotions can tell us when to ask for help or when we need a rest. Even better, they help us love God! We can always share our feelings with Jesus. But we don't need to let our emotions control us.
Not only will children be encouraged to follow Jesus’ example, but they’ll also be reassured that he loves us no matter what we do (or feel). He can forgive us when we fail and help us to change.
Parents, teachers and other loved ones can refer back to these resources when behaviours need to be corrected or big feelings pop up. They help provide a response that connects to forgiveness, grace and growth.
| Age range: | 1+ |
|---|---|
| Contributors | Abbey Wedgeworth |
| ISBN | 9781802543018 |
| Format | Board book |
| First published | May 2025 |
| Dimensions | 165mm x 165mm x 20mm |
| Weight | 0.32 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 9 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
This book is a delight. Probably as helpful to the parent reading it as the child hearing it.
As a mama to 6 boys, I would have loved this book in their little years! What Are Feelings For? is a wonderful resource for helping your child understand their emotions and look to Jesus as their ultimate example.
I am incredibly excited about these new books from Abbey Wedgeworth. Engaging, helpful, and full of truth, these books are sure to become a favorite in your home!
If you’re thinking to yourself “A lift flap board book is for babies right?” It’s time to reframe that mindset.
What are feeling for? Is a great board book for the youngest of ages, AND it also brings truth and practical help to parents of older littles/kiddos as well.
My littles (1, 4 and 5) are the perfect example of this being a book for multiple ages. The flaps and sturdy board book pages keep my youngest entertained, and the storyline and illustration prompts deeper discussion with my older girls.
My oldest (5) has struggled with big emotions recently and I plan to keep this resource on hand for years to come. It not only acts as a primer for little feelings, but prompts in depth discussion for older ages.
A sturdy and beautiful board book with simple truths how to control our emotions. Perfect for little hearts! Love this Training Young Hearts Series!
Another addition to the Training Young Hearts series! This series includes Eyes, Ears, Mouths, Hands and Feet. This new addition covers our emotions. I would argue that this one is the most valuable. Understanding our emotions and learning how to navigate, process, and act on them is a very difficult thing. This book does a wonderful job starting that conversation with littles.
Abbey relates our natural feelings to the feelings Jesus had as we read the Scriptures. They are real and God-given. So we have a responsibility to handle them as God desires us to.
She also brings in the concept of forgiveness, as we all have acted upon our feelings in a sinful way. Thankfully, we have a Savior who has taken the penalty for us.
She ends the book with the Gospel: "my feelings were made to be shared with God...and to help me love him more!" That's our ultimate purpose in life - relationship with God.
This is a wonderful addition to any little kid's library!
I received a copy of this book from The Good Book Company in exchange for an honest review.
The perfect ending to this series. Toddlers especially have lots of feelings they are trying to navigate and this book is such an excellent tool for helping us as parents guide them through how God created them to use those emotions. As always the illustrations are darling and diverse. Huge fans of this series.
Thanks to the Good Book Company for the copy for review. All opinions are my own.
Hurtful, angry and depressed feelings can be hard for a little person to control, but with Abbey Wedgeworth's newest board book, toddlers can be introduced to their feelings and learn how to deal with them.
What are Feelings For? Has been written by Abbey Wedgeworth and is produced by The Good Book company. It is illustrated by Emma Randall.
The pictures of the children, their actions, and the flaps to lift on every page, keep toddlers engaged through every sentence.
I love how children are taught that when they do wrong things because of their feelings, they can ask God to forgive them, and they are also reminded that Jesus had feelings too.
I would highly recommend this book to any Christian family with young children. Also, What are Feelings For? Would be great in a church nursery or toddler Sunday school room.
This board book teaches kids about why God made our feelings. Abbey Wedgeworth gives examples of why feelings are important, since they tell us what we need and can help us meet those needs. She also talks about how feeling happy helps us enjoy God's good gifts, and she encourages kids to share their feelings with God and others. Then she writes about ways that people might mishandle their feelings, such as letting their feelings control them or ignoring and hiding their feelings.
Wedgeworth introduces Jesus after that, saying that he was once a child with feelings, and that even though he felt lots of different feelings, he never sinned. She explains that even though Jesus told God that he was afraid to die, he obeyed anyway out of love for us. The book then moves into life application, teaching kids that when they act out because of their feelings, they can ask Jesus for forgiveness, and that when they want to hide their feelings, they can ask the Holy Spirit to help them.
This book expresses important concepts in simple, child-friendly terms, and the illustrations from Emma Randall are colorful, expressive, and fun. Every page in this book also includes a flap to lift, and these work very well. The flaps come up easily, and the material is thick enough to survive many repeated readings, as long as a child isn't too rough with them. The flaps aren't just for fun, either, since the illustrations and words under each flap are integral to the book.
This book can help children appreciate God's design for their lives, and even though this book is more abstract than others in the series, it can help kids understand the difference between positive and harmful choices in everyday life. Many parents will find this board book helpful, since it gives them a concrete way to engage their kids with important topics instead of just giving verbal instruction.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
"God made me with feelings! And what are feelings FOR?"
In a culture that basis it's identity on "feelings," it's so important that our kids know the purpose of our feelings
💕 happy & fun to enjoy God's gifts
💕 hunger & tired to receive God's care
💕 anger & fear to ask for God's help
"Did God make my feelings to CONTROL my actions or to tell me what's TRUE? No, of course not!"
💭 Most children's books about feelings are devoid in truth and self-control, this board book puts feelings rightfully in place when rooted in Truth.
📚 This whole series is rooted in the Gospel, pointing Christ's work on the cross, reminding them they are made by God, and teaching them about repentance and forgiveness!
🩵 What Are Eyes For?
🩵 What Are Hands For?
🩵 What Are Ears For?
🩵 What Are Feet For?
🩵 What Are Mouths For?
⚠️ Negative behaviors. Positive behaviors are empathized and negative behaviors are presented but with immediate correction.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5.0 Board Book Series!
💫 If you are looking for sturdy board books that are rooted in the gospel, the Training Young Hearts is a great addition to your home library.
I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review.
This series is a delightful selection of short books for toddlers. Wedgeworth manages to teach some really important and tricky truths to toddlers, using some age-appropriate language and illustrations with plenty of flaps to open and see what is behind them! This is a great gift for a young child (and their family) to start thinking about some truths about God together, as well as what it would look like to respond to him.
“Did God make my feelings to control my actions or tell me what’s true? Of course not!”
This brand new book from @abbeywedgeworth might be my favorite in this wonderful series! In a culture that tells our kids to be ruled by their feelings, this is such an important book to share. It begins with defining what feelings are and how God intended them to be used (to help us know when to ask for help, to know when we need God’s comfort and care). Examples are given of how our feelings are not to be used (to control us and tell us what’s true, to be ignored and hidden). These sweet books always return to Jesus as the standard (examples given: he obeyed God even when he was afraid to die, he turned over the tables in temple). The story ends by giving children hope that even when we do allow our emotions to control us, that we can always ask God for forgiveness and help!
I’m confident you and your toddlers are going to love this book! Highly recommend adding this one to your home library!
This Training Young Hearts series is my 21-month old’s FAVORITE. And I was so thrilled to see a brand new addition on feelings (releases June 3)!
We have lots of feelings in this house of 4 young kids and 2 parents - and I absolutely love the way @abbeywedgeworth walks us through this tricky subject. It’s a mini-theology on emotions.
Feelings are real - even such feelings of hunger or tiredness. But feelings should not control how we act or tell us what is true.
And yet…when we do let feelings control us, we can ask for forgiveness and receive it because Jesus died for our sins and rose again. And He is ready to forgive.
I am grateful for the opportunity to be telling these truths to myself as well as my kids, every time we read this book.
