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When My Worries Get Too Big!: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live With Anxiety Paperback – July 8, 2013

by Kari Dunn Buron (Author), Brenda Smith Myles (Foreword)

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This is a book for children with anxiety. High levels of stress and anxiety related to social situations, problems of emotional regulation and sensory issues are common in children who live with anxiety related disorders. High levels of stress can lead to a break down in cognitive functioning impacting a child's ability to learn from teaching, make good decisions and even form meaningful relationships. More than any other childhood issue, a loss of emotional control can lead to the need for a restrictive special education programming. Even for children who are able to attend inclusive classrooms, peers might avoid or fear a child whose behavior is unpredictably scary or even violent. The objective of this book is to teach highly anxious children how to relax their bodies and control their emotions.When My Worries Get Too Big is based on cognitive behavioral management and psycho-education, both of which are approaches to behavior management that focus on teaching children to recognize their own feelings of anxiety and then teaching them strategies to help them control those feelings. This second edition includes several additional strategies that parents and teachers can use to support children with anxiety. The strategies are inline with the evidence-based practice of self-management as well as offering visual and interactive structure to support children who lack executive functioning skills.

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When My Worries Get Too Big! was originally written for a highly anxious 5 year old. I have used the book to teach relaxation to children ages 4 - 12. The book uses a 5-point scale and imagery to teach Emotion Regulation skills to young learners. I illustrated the book myself and love the whimsical and hand made look of the character.

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Kari Dunn Buron taught with students on the autism spectrum in K-12 for 30+ years and was a founding member of the Minnesota Autism Project. She developed an Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate program for educators at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, and has done volunteer work specific to autism in Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Tanzania, and Ghana. In 2003, Kari received a self-designed Bush Leadership Fellowship that allowed her to spend a year interviewing and working internationally with scientists and researchers in the area of social cognition, education, and autism with a focus on challenging behaviors. In 2012, Kari was inducted into the Illinois State University Education Department Hall of Fame.Kari is the co-author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale, and the author of A “5” Could Make Me Lose Control and A 5 is Against the Law! (2008 ASA Literary Award Winner). She is also the co-editor of a textbook for educators entitled Learners on the Autism Spectrum: Preparing Highly Qualified Educators (2009 ASA Literary Award Winner) and a co-author of Social Behavior and Self-Management (a scale book for adults). Kari's most recent release is a children's chapter book entitled Adalyn's Clare, a story about a highly anxious fourth grader and her social therapy dog, Clare.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aapc Inc; 2nd edition (July 8, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 55 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1937473805
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1937473808
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 4
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.25 x 9.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #243,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #135 in Behavioral Disorders in Special Ed.
- #531 in Early Childhood Education
- #811 in Medical General Psychology

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Kari Dunn Buron taught in K-12 with students on the autism spectrum for 30+ years and was a founding member of the MN Autism Project. She developed an Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate program for educators at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN and has done volunteer work specific to autism in Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Tanzania and Ghana. In 2003, Kari received a Self-designed Bush Leadership Fellowship that allowed her to spend a year interviewing and working internationally with a number of scientists and researchers in the area of Neuroscience, Social Cognition, Education and Autism with a focus on challenging behaviors. In 2012, Kari was inducted into the Illinois State University Education Department Hall of Fame.

Kari is the co-author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale (Revised Edition), and the author of When My Worries Get Too Big, A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control and A 5 is Against the Law! (2008 ASA literary award winner). Kari is the co-editor of a textbook for educators titled Learners on the Autism Spectrum: Preparing Highly Qualified Educators (2009 ASA literary award winner) and is the creator of an original social skills magazine designed for students with Asperger Syndrome called The Social Times (2010 Gold Winner, National Patenting Publications Award and Gold Medal Winner - Moonbeam Children's Book Awards).

Kari's latest projects include Social Behavior and Self-Management

(a book about how to use the scale with adults) and an early chapter book entitled Adalyn's Clare. Adalyn's Clare is a story about the dilemmas faced when a child has social anxiety, and the importance of respecting special interests when creating successful special programs. Adalyn's Clare is an excellent book to add to a Bibliotherapy curriculum teaching social and emotional information to highly anxious children.

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Kristal Leon

Great workbook to cope with anxiety. Must have!

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2019

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My daughter's therapist suggested this workbook to me to help her learn how to cope with her anxiety and this book has definitely been a God send. My daughter loves to work on this book with me and often times she is asking me to pull it out for her instead of me asking her. My daughter has had a hard time communicating her feelings and this book is definitely helping her do that. She has even asked me for more workbooks just like this one. I finally feel like we are making progress with her anxiety. I highly recommend this book to anyone who either works with kids or has kids that are dealing with anxiety.

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Christie Priem

EXCELLENT And Helpful

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2017

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A MUST-HAVE for every person who works with kids, every special educator, and every parent or grandparent! I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist who works with kids diagnosed with all sorts of developmental disorders, and I use this book or similar discussions with almost all of them. I'm also using the techniques with myself, since I realize I'm not especially good at telling when I'm about to crack under pressure. I just purchased a copy for my brother and his wife to use with their daughters, one of whom is very emotionally and physically sensitive. Super wonderful excellent resource. Many many thanks to the author. I recommend the other resources by this author, as well, such as "A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control".

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amy

My students seemed to relate

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2019

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I had a couple of students that nodded their heads and seemed to relate to the story. After a class discussion, they were able to come away with helpful ideas to manage their own stresses. This book would be age appropriate for elementary age children. With that being said, older children have also been know to gain insights from picture books!

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Sondra

Not what i was hoping for.

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2017

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I can see how this book would help children with behavioral issues (throwing, meltdowns, etc), bit I was hoping this would help my child with anxiety. Her worries are really too big, but this book is not directed at those types of "worries. It seems like it's written for children that don't know how to handle anger and disappointment who then fall into emotional fits because their emotion is too large for them to know what to do with. My child has a "worrier" mind. She thinks of all the bad possibilities or pulls up bad memories like blood being drawn by a nurse and doesn't know how to stop her mind and slow it down. I was hoping this would help me find ways to calm her, but it didn't.

I ended up giving it to a friend who works in a kinder behavioral class (children with autism, ADHD, etc) and she thinks it has a lot of great information for her kids.

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Legacy 600

A great find!

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017

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My 8 year old son often refers back to this book. The book explains so clearly how we feed into our fears and also how to over come them. My child was able to relate to the story and immediately felt like someone understood what he was going through. When his fears pop back up we often quote from the book. So glad we purchased this. It definitely helped calm his worries.

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Jen True

Worried kids will like this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015

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This was a perfect gift for my child, who worries about stuff and sometimes needs a way to calm down. This isn't just a book, it has pages that need to be filled in, so it can be personalized. Your child's own worries can be listed out. I think the things the book says to do are easy for a child and can be done anywhere. We re-read it sometimes as a reminder.

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bubbe barbara

Okay but a little too specific

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2017

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Using with primary males with autism who find talking about feelings difficult. Would be nice if they left blanks for kids and teachers to write their specific concerns. My 3 students enjoy rereading and draw different pictures each time, except for the one who hates to draw. He will talk about feelings, however, a huge change.

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Chelsea Burns

Wonderful book for teaching levels of anger and cooldown

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017

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This book has been so helpful with my autistic son! He has been getting angry and escalating very quickly and not knowing why or how to calm down. This book has taught his different stages to his anger and how to recognize them and calm down. His teachers now own a copy and love it too!

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