🎁🎁🎁 Gifts 🎁🎁🎁
Here on the author's blog, you will receive free coloring pages (here: "Egbert Turns Red" / "In Here, Out There!") for this resilience mini-series and free, newly illustrated e-book editions in many languages (here: "Egbert Turns Red" / "In Here, Out There!"), so that reading aloud remains varied and exciting!
🛡️Your Inner Shield: Managing Anger, Developing Emotional Resilience
A child's emotional world is an ocean – sometimes smooth as glass, sometimes stormy. Two of the biggest challenges for healthy self-esteem are dealing with one's own, explosive anger (what to do when I "turn red"?) and dealing with negativity from the outside (what to do when others "belittle" me?).
This is exactly where this two-book series comes in. It is an emotional first-aid kit that helps children develop a strong "emotional skin". "Egbert Turns Red" gives anger a name and an outlet, while "In Here, Out There!" teaches the art of healthy boundaries.
Read together, discussed together, these books offer opportunities to support your child's positive development through stories and examples:
❤️ The Top 10 Benefits for Your Child
Emotional Awareness (Internal): The child learns through Egbert and the accompanying parent discussion to recognize the physical signs of anger (getting hot, tension) in themselves earlier.
Emotional Awareness (External): The child learns through Jakob and the supplementary explanations from parents during read-aloud, to recognize unnecessary criticism and "complaining" from the outside as what it is – often just the "noise" of other people.
Acceptance of Feelings: Through the example, the child understands that anger is a normal feeling that is "okay" and doesn't automatically make them "bad" (Egbert).
Healthy Boundaries: The child learns the concept of the "filter" – the ability to decide for themselves which words to let in and which not ("In Here, Out There!").
Protection of Self-Esteem (Double): The child is reinforced in understanding that they are (A) valuable despite anger and (B) remain valuable at all times despite external criticism.
Active Self-Efficacy: The child no longer feels helpless. They are given an active solution strategy for both problems (anger & criticism) ("turning red" and feeling vs. "letting it pass through" and setting boundaries).
Stress Relief (Outlet): "Egbert Turns Red" legitimizes the responsible "letting out" of pent-up energy before it becomes destructive.
Stress Prevention (Shield): "In Here, Out There!" shows by example that new emotional tensions from hurtful words can sometimes be successfully prevented before they even arise.
Promotion of Inner Calm: Both books show ways for the child to find their way back to emotional equilibrium more quickly – either after a tantrum or after a disturbance from the outside.
Resilience (The Complete Package): With parental support and through the safe experience of the stories, children build fundamental emotional resilience. They learn that they don't have to be knocked over by their own internal storms or by storms from the outside.
🎁🎁🎁 Gifts 🎁🎁🎁
On the author's blog, you will receive free topic lists and explanations for the books in this mini-series, which help you as parents to specifically and lovingly discuss the top 10 themes and aspects (see Top 10 Aspects in the Picture Book "Egbert Turns Red" and Top 10 Aspects in the Picture Book "In Here, Out There!") of the books with your child or children, to deepen understanding, and to promote development.
Have fun reading aloud and with the exciting conversations that result from it!
