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 | June 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!
As a mom, I appreciate the solid biblical truths these books are written to convey. They’re both fun and practical, and they give us parents biblical vocabulary as they use this tool to disciple our kids. The series features simple language that is easy to understand as it tells the message of God as our creator, our purpose in serving Him, and Jesus as the only perfect One.
This newest book in the series takes it from the outside (hands, eyes, ears, feet) to the inside (feelings). It helps toddlers understand the good & true purpose and function of our feelings. But also the way we sometimes mishandle our feelings or allow them to sinfully command our actions. Then it shows how Jesus, as fully God and fully man, felt the range of emotions but never sinned. Ending with the gospel communicated so simply and clearly - that because of Jesus’ perfection, we can turn to Him when we make mistakes in handling our feelings. When we repent, we are promised His forgiveness and help to be more like Him. What a beautiful truth for the youngest children among us to learn at an early age!
Thank you to thegoodbookcompanyusa for a complimentary book in exchange for an honest review. Opinions expressed are completely my own.
This sturdy board book is a "lift a flap" dream! The focus is on feelings, but not in the way you might think! Our feelings send us signals, but they aren't meant to control us. They were meant to be shared with God so that we can live in obedience to Him. 🫶🏻
This is a great resource for little ones who inevitably experience great, BIG feelings from time to time.
We live in a world where we are told every feeling must be validated. People lead by emotion, and believe their feelings are more important than others, and matter above all else. This is why What Are Feelings For? could not be timelier or more important. Kids (and adults) need to understand that God made feelings, but we need to know what to do with them, and how to ask Jesus for help.
God made feelings so that you can enjoy His wonderful gifts. So that you know when you are hungry or tired. And even gave us feelings of sadness and anger, so that we can ask for help and be comforted. He does not want our feelings to control us. Even Jesus showed feelings of anger, sadness, fear, and joy- yet He was sinless.
These wonderful and edifying board books with adorable illustrations teach young children that no matter what, there is grace and forgiveness in Jesus. “God’s Holy Spirit helps me pray my feelings and not be controlled by them just like Jesus.”
I highly recommend all the books in the Training Young Hearts series! The board books are great for toddlers, but even my 6-year-old enjoys them! We thoroughly enjoyed it, and it might just be our favorite in the board book series!
*I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.*
My preschooler adores the Training Young Hearts series and asks me to read all the books to her almost everyday. They have been tremendously helpful in teaching her about different body parts, what God has made them for, how we're prone to use them for self-centred reasons, and the forgiveness and help we can have in Jesus Christ. I love the language used, and have been using them to remind my children (and myself!) to honour Jesus with each of our body parts. Thanks Abbey! The illustrations are also very fun and diverse - thank you talented Emma!
Feelings are more abstract than body parts, but the author and illustration have done a superb job in teaching children to appreciate feelings and understand how our actions don't have to be controlled by them. The storyline of this book continues to follow the same structure, and I appreciate this repetition as it is extremely helpful for children in their learning. This book has helped me grow in my godliness as much as my children!
If you aren't farmilar with this board book series, it is a wonderful series that practically teaches children the gospel using different parts of the body and how we were made to us our bodies and how we sin and miss use the bodies God has made. It teaches children about Jesus and how he was perfect and that we can find forgiveness with him. I love that this series teaches children that the Holy Spirit is our helper.
This newest edition to the series, is focused on our feelings. It teaches children that feelings don't always align with truth which I appreciate so much! This book follows the same pattern as the others in the series, but with our emotions as the focus.
My 1.5 year old loves this book so much with the bright pictures and flaps. This series has been a popular one in our house and we are so excited to add another to the series.
Thank you @thegoodbookcompanyusa for a copy of this book for my honest thoughts!
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.
