Friends with Emotions

A collection of therapeutic fairy tales for children aged 2-5 and their parents. The fairy tales in the collection touch upon many situations that parents and toddlers face every day.

With the help of special emotion regulation techniques, the fairy tales in the collection help toddlers learn to cope with various emotions. Emotion regulation techniques are methods embedded in simple games that can be played with a toddler at any time and in any place. Some games can help in the moment to manage an acute emotion, stopping the child from being angry, crying, or being fussy. Other games have a delayed effect: they develop emotional intelligence, teach the child to listen to what they feel, and train imagination, which will help in the future to find unconventional solutions to situations. The emotion regulation techniques and methodology laid out in the book were developed by an international team of psychologists.

The main idea of the methodology and the collection is that there are no "bad" emotions; it is normal for a person to experience any feeling, but it is important to be able to accept and cope with it.