Beyond Words: Child Edition: Shared Journal Paperback – 15 April 2023

I purchased this for my 2 children, mainly for my 9 year old as she seems anxious often, but I couldn’t buy one without the other. It has blown me away how much I have found out about my children’s feelings, emotions and worry’s, all down to this little journal, it has also opened doors for communication to be able to help with my children’s worry’s.

My 7 year old has always been a bit of a thinker and sometimes find it hard to articulate this in verbally as he feels he shouldn’t ask such deep questions. I’ve never discourage him with such questions but I believe he feels kids his age don’t ask such questions. This results In frustration and a bit of anxiety of the unknown.m for him.I have never come across anything like this book before! It’s super user friendly for children. He especially likes the worry jar bit. He use to be up at night worried about things that he cannot control,now, before bed , he puts down his concerns in the worry jar bit and literally falls asleep happily!He also loves the bit where he can put down his questions before bed. When he falls asleep I will then get the book, read what he wants to know about and write the answers to the best of my ability ready for him to read in the morning. His latest question was “what is a black hole and can we get lost in it”… he is a deep thinker you see! And I’m glad it’s given me time to think about the answers and I have used google quite a bit too, I’m not sure how I could answer this if he was to ask me face to face. This way it gives me time to think about the type of answer for himI highly recommend this to every child! It’s given my son reassurance that he can ask anything if he’s not comfortable asking verbally, that it’s absolutely normal to have questions that are not in the norm, it’s helped with my communication with him and him with me and it’s given him a more relaxed sleeping pattern, as we all know.., the deep thoughts tend to come at night when we lie in bed. 10/10 for this book!