Why Do I Feel So Worried? is a thoughtful and well-put-together resource for adults looking to support anxious kiddos. It is easy to overlook kids' emotions, and this book encourages adults to help kids instead of disregarding their feelings. This would be a great book to have on hand for any parent or person who deals with young people on a regular basis.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

This was a great book to really put into perspective how anxiety can affect one's life. I thought it was relatable and easy to follow, and saw myself using it with my students in the future. Mental health issues affect many children and they haven't always been talked about. This book easily allows children to cope and rationalize their feelings, while giving parents a good stepping stone towards talking to their child. I wish this was around when I was younger!

As someone who struggles with anxiety I think this is a great book for tweens who are figuring out their emotions.

This book is a great guided way to work through why we worry, and how we can work through those feelings. It is broken down very well and easy to read.

Why Do I Feel So Worried? A Kid's Guide to Coping with Big Emotions—Follow the Arrows from Anxiety to Calm by Tammi Kirkness is a perfect book for raising a child in today's world. Today's kids have so many issues that could cause them to worry. This book gives concrete ways that they can take that anxiety and deal with it constructively. Honestly, kids and adults would both benefit from this book. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

This book was such a good choice for me. I was able to read it with a few of my children who absolutely worry. Alot. It was easy to engage with and even my kids several years younger had no trouble understanding this book. The discussions that proceeded this book are priceless. The discussions kids and I had probably would not have been started in such a calming way had it not been for this book. I was quite surprised by how much they liked this book.

I loved this book! I am a special education teacher and a mom of 2 kids with anxiety. This book was so user friendly and practical. I love the way it asked thoughtful questions to get kids thinking about their problems as well as providing pathways to solutions. It is easy to read and engaging with colorful illustrations. I would highly recommend this book to all parents and teachers and will definitely be adding a copy to both my home and classroom libraries.

This is an incredible book to help children manage their feelings. The interactive nature of the book is very engaging, particularly the flow chart to assist with the identification of anxiety symptoms. Over the past two years, my child has been struggling with anxiety and worry. This book helped him tremendously, and is a great resources to have at home.

The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was expecting information about anxiety, but this format was so much better than I was expecting. The book takes a young reader through a series of steps to define and describe their worries while suggesting helpful techniques to calm anxiety and plan for the future. I wish I had this resource growing up. Adults will also benefit from reading.

This workbook created to help tweens and their families navigate the treacherous waters of anxiety is incredibly well-done. The book is broken into four sections: How do I feel?; Feeling my Feelings; Figuring out where the worry started; Checking in again. The flowchart style is very user-friendly and will appeal to readers of all ages. Readers are also provided with useful tips and tricks to help them alleviate some of their worries and anxieties. I really liked that the book will help readers to identify if their anxiety is internal or beginning with an external stimulus. The reminders and affirmations will also help to provide a calmness to readers.

This is an excellent guide to helping your kid work through some worries. My kid worries - a LOT - and I will definitely be reading this with them. I can definitely see how some of the exercises could really help them.

The information is presented in a clear, easy-to-understand, and visually appealing way. It is easy to work through the entire book or just the section that is relevant to the child's current worry. There are incisive questions to ask the child and exercises (meditation, etc) to help deal with each specific type of worry.

*Thanks to NetGalley and The Experiment for providing an e-arc for review.

Very easy for children and adults to break down anxiety management into bite sized chunks. Perfect for elementary school and middle grade kids to read aloud, practice with a trusted therapist or adult, and gain some insight into emotional management and processing. It’s colorful and fun to look at, and is never preachy or condescending. As an adult reading this I can also say I find the exercises very practical for any age and yes even for us grownups. A great intro to mindfulness as well. Loved this and highly recommend.

This book is AMAZING! It is a wonderful resource full of questions to help kids (and their grownups) really root out what they're feeling and what may be causing it. It asks lots of questions and has flow charts to help get to the core of things that might be bothering kids. Once issues are identified, several coping suggestions are offered.

The abundance of practical advice is what makes this so valuable. So often we might figure out the "what" of our feelings, or even the "why", but are often left without tools to address the situation. This offers a robust toolkit of activities, exercises, and affirmations to address worries head-on, without judgment or undue alarm. This would be an excellent purchase for school social workers, psychologists, and resource officers. It would also be a very useful reference for all parents and caregivers to have on hand.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

OK - I don't have kids, nor am I a teacher, nor do I really have any connection to the intended audience of this book. But I myself suffer from anxiety, and so does my sixty-seven year old immigrant dad who has never been to therapy nor really developed coping mechanisms for his anxiety. I requested this because I thought some of the information might benefit him, and honestly myself as well. And it really did!

Anxiety is a big and overwhelming emotion that feels difficult - sometimes impossible - to control. This book gives anyone who needs it strategies for how to identify your emotions and feelings (e.g., are you feeling the kind of anxiety where you want to run away? Where you can't stop thinking about something? Where you feel hot?), connect your thoughts to how anxiety manifests in different parts of your body, get to the source of the anxiety (e.g., are you worried about school? Other people? The world?), and immediately deal with any result of these inquiries.

It doesn't promise durable solutions - it gives you a mechanism to try to immediately relieve worries; these mechanisms are grounded in science with notes explaining the rationale to parents at the bottom of the page. I can see this being a reference tool for kids (or anyone!) to use over and over, to pull it out whenever that scary feeling hits and have some way of doing something about it right now.

I wish I had something like this when I was a kid, and I wish a simple book like this existed for me now! (Maybe it does and I just don't know it.) Kids these days have to deal with unprecedented Big Things, especially something complex, life-altering, and interfering like Covid-19. It stresses me out as a young adult with few responsibilities and a stable job. I can't imagine how tough it is for kids who have to deal with how it impacts their schooling, their personal lives, their friends, and their parents - and try to succeed academically and socially on top of that. I praise the author for coming up with a book that begins to address these things and teach the value of coping mechanisms at a young age.

As a psychotherapist I was very impressed by this book that I honestly feel both children and adults would benefit from. We live in a society that tells us “negative” emotions are “bad”. This book normalizes emotions as internal messages, steps to process those emotions and, finally, self-soothe. I’d love to read more from this author and will be recommending it to other professionals, parents and caregivers in my field of profession.

I love this book. I will be adding it to my personal collection. Having a 5 year old with sensory disorders and going through the pandemic has caused a rift in his social emotional learning. We work with him but are always looking for new titles to add. This book allows for him to self identify and offers simple solutions or choices to help with his feelings. In this time of uncertainty many children are not learning to cope or adapt their feelings. This would be great anywhere accessible to children or families.

Why Do I Feel So Worried? is a book to help children with big feelings, worries or anxiety to become emotionally aware and develop healthy grounding and coping techniques starting at a young age. The Flowchart and note style of this book truly makes this book user friendly and these techniques accessible for an elementary or middle school aged child and assists their adults to understand the methods used as well. This book has been so great to utilize with my 7 year old as we continue to navigate managing his anxiety through emotional awareness.

*I was provided an electronic ARC of this book for review through @netgalley.

Why Do I feel So Worried? is a book designed to help a child (or even an adult) understand his/ her feelings and manage those feelings in a healthy manner. There are notes to parents and caregivers throughout the book as well as notes at the beginning and end of the book. The book starts with a child determining how he/ she feels using faces representing different emotions and a rating scale. The child can then describe how his/ her body is feeling and where the worry started. There is a lengthy series of yes/ no questions that can be used with the child on determining what they are actually worried about along with concrete activities the child can use to get through the big feelings. There are literally arrows that the child and caregiver can follow as they navigate the child's feelings. At the very end of the book, there is a check-in section where the child again rates how he/ she is feeling. There are also helpful tips, calming rituals, affirmations, an anytime meditation script, as well as additional resources.

I absolutely loved this book and am absolutely adding it to my classroom library. I will also be sharing this information with our school's guidance counselor, and behavior specialist. I am a special education teacher and over the years, many of my students have had difficulties with managing their worries and self-regulations. Some of these students have unfortunately displayed some extremely inappropriate behaviors as a result. This book will be a useful tool to help teach students how to manage their response to their anxiety. I really like that this could be used during a behavioral event and can help guide a child through his/ her feelings and then use the techniques to help manage those big feelings.. The students do not choose to be anxious , but this book can help them choose how to manage the anxieties.

As a social worker and therapist for children I would 100% use this book in my practice. I loved the choose your own adventure type style. It allows the children to point out which sections feel true for their emotions in the moment. It also is great because it would help the child feel like they are in control of trying different techniques to feel better instead of adults telling them what to do. Great work!