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Big Feelings, Safe Hearts
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Informed Clinician Press
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.06 Width: 11.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Big Feelings, Safe Hearts
Children notice more than we often realize. They see our smiles, hear our laughter, and feel our love. They also notice when we are sad, frustrated, worried, overwhelmed, or having a difficult day. When grown-ups experience big emotions, children sometimes wonder if they caused those feelings or if it is their responsibility to make everything better.
Big Feelings, Safe Hearts gently teaches children an important truth: grown-ups are responsible for grown-up feelings, and little hearts are not responsible for carrying grown-up burdens.
Through relatable situations, comforting illustrations, and simple, age-appropriate language, children learn that they can be loved, safe, and secure even when the adults around them are experiencing strong emotions. The story helps children understand healthy emotional boundaries while reassuring them that they are not responsible for fixing problems that belong to adults.
As part of the Little Hearts Need to Know(TM) series, this book also celebrates the beauty of human diversity. Throughout its pages, children will encounter individuals from a variety of ethnicities, cultures, family backgrounds, and abilities. The illustrations intentionally include children and adults with visible and invisible differences, helping young readers learn that every person has value and deserves kindness, respect, and acceptance.
Children naturally notice differences. Big Feelings, Safe Hearts encourages them to see those differences not as something to fear or judge, but as part of what makes each person uniquely special. Whether someone looks different, comes from a different culture, communicates differently, learns differently, or lives with a disability, every heart deserves to be treated with compassion and dignity.
Parents, caregivers, counselors, educators, pastors, and ministry leaders will appreciate the book's gentle approach to discussing emotions, relationships, empathy, and personal responsibility. The included Parent Connection section provides additional conversation starters and practical ideas to help adults reinforce the book's lessons at home, in counseling settings, classrooms, and children's ministries.
Perfect for children ages 3-8, Big Feelings, Safe Hearts helps young readers:
- Understand that grown-ups are responsible for grown-up feelings
- Recognize that they are not responsible for fixing adult problems
- Build healthy emotional boundaries
- Develop empathy and compassion for others
- Appreciate differences in people, cultures, strengths, and abilities
- Grow in kindness, acceptance, and respect
- Learn biblical truths about love, value, and belonging
Filled with warmth, encouragement, Scripture, and meaningful life lessons, Big Feelings, Safe Hearts reminds children that they are deeply loved, wonderfully made, and free to be children while their hearts grow strong, healthy, and secure.
Book One in the Little Hearts Need to Know(TM) series.
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