How It Feels & How It Works: Your Wonderful Mind: A Book for Curious Kids About Big Feelings, Brave Thoughts, and Your Amazing Brain

Why do I get angry so fast? Why does my tummy hurt when I'm worried? Why can't I remember being a baby?Your child asks these questions. Now they can finally understand the answers."How It Feels & How It Works: Your Wonderful Mind" is the first children's book that connects emotions to brain science—giving kids aged 7-10 the language to understand their feelings and the tools to manage them.Meet Leo Curio — Your Child's Guide to Their Own MindLeo is a curious chameleon who changes color with his emotions (just like your child!). Together with Leo, readers explore the incredible spaceship inside their head—discovering why they feel the way they feel, and what they can do about it.Through memorable analogies and gentle science, children learn:✅ The Guard Dog — Why anger strikes so fast (and how to calm it with the Cooling Breath)✅ The Red Phone — Why tummy aches happen when we're nervous (and how the brain and gut talk to each other)✅ The Night Shift — Where dreams come from (and why they're so strange!)✅ The Captain — How to be brave even when scared (because bravery isn't the absence of fear)✅ The Superhighway — Why hard things get easier with practice (the science of "not yet")✅ The Soul Map — What makes your child uniquely, wonderfully THEMMore Than a Book — An Interactive AdventureEvery chapter ends with an Explorer's Mission — hands-on activities designed for parent-child connection:The Cooling Breath (calm anger like cooling hot cocoa)The Whisper Test (discover your inner voice)The Brave Pose (stand like a superhero to feel like one)The Dream Journal (catch your dreams before they fade)And many more!These aren't worksheets. They're adventures. Tools your child will use for life.Why Parents, Teachers & Counselors Love This Book📚 Science-backed — Real neuroscience (amygdala, vagus nerve, neuroplasticity) explained through child-friendly metaphors📚 No toxic positivity — Emotions aren't "good" or "bad." They're messengers. This book teaches kids to listen, not suppress.📚 Built to last — Grounded in biology, not trends. The concepts in this book will be relevant for decades.📚 Beautiful illustrations — Warm, whimsical artwork designed to spark wonder (not overstimulate)📚 Part of a series — Book 1 of 4 in the "How It Feels & How It Works" seriesThe Perfect Gift for Curious KidsIdeal for:Children ages 7-10 struggling with big emotionsKids who ask "why?" about everythingFamilies wanting to build emotional vocabulary togetherTeachers and school counselors seeking SEL resourcesAnyone who believes children deserve to understand themselvesWhat's Inside:→ Introduction: Who Is Driving the Spaceship?→ 11 Chapters exploring emotions, memory, dreams, bravery, and identity→ Conclusion: What Makes Me... ME?→ Explorer's Science Log in every chapter→ Interactive missions throughout→ Approximately 120 pages of wonderFor every "How It Feels" your child may face, "How It Works" puts knowledge in its place.Scroll up and click "Add to Cart" — because every child deserves to understand the amazing mind they already have. Read more