Day 4: Responding to Big Feelings

Talk about It with Your Kids

• When you get big feelings, what do you usually want to do? Stomp like a dinosaur? Roar like a tiger? Hide like a turtle? Stay awake like an owl? Sleep like a brown bear? Or maybe something else? Describe what big feelings make you want to do.
• Sometimes our big feelings will make our bodies feel things. We might feel a dizzy feeling like the wind in our mind, or our ears and cheeks might get hot like the scorching sun on a prickly cactus. What are some things you have noticed in your body when you are having big feelings?

Practice It

Try one of the ideas from the book the next time you are having big feelings. You could:

• Squeeze a ball of playdough and squeeze out all your big feelings to Jesus.
• Slowly breathe in your big feelings like you’re smelling a delicious birthday cake and then blow out your big feelings to Jesus.
• You can draw a picture of your big feelings, and then put it in an envelope and imagine you are mailing your feelings to Jesus.
• Or you can talk to or yell to or whisper to Jesus about your big feelings!