My Feelings Journal

My Feelings Journal by Catherine Stephenson is a daily check-in for children ages 5 to 9. It takes a few minutes a day, and every feeling is welcome on the page.

Each daily page follows four simple steps. Your child circles a Feeling Friend, shows how big the feeling is on a thermometer from 0 to 10, draws the feeling, and writes one good thing about today.

• 70 daily pages, each ending with one good thing about the day.
• 8 Feeling Friends: Happy, Excited, Silly, Proud, Calm, Worried, Sad and Angry, painted as watercolor faces.
• A 0 to 10 feelings thermometer, from very small at 0 to very big at 10.
• 10 weekly pages between the check-ins, including Calm-Down Corner, Worry Release and My Brave Moment.

In Week 3, for example, the Worry Release page asks kids to name one worry and then imagine it drifting away. The interior is printed in full color.