Have you ever been puzzled by your child’s behavior? POFFER is here to help!

Children behave because of the way the feel. So, if your child hits because he is MAD, interrupts because he is EXCITED, whines because he is DISAPPOINTED, or talks back because he feels ASHAMED, you will literally have a ‘pocket full’ of ideas at your fingertips to help you understand why and positively change the way your child behaves. I’m so excited to be helping promote a much needed campaign that promotes young children’s Emotional Development. My colleague and friend, Dr. Ann Corwin, who most know her as The Parenting Doctor,  has created a wonderful new resource called Pocket Full of Feelings – that I wholeheartedly endorse and use on my parenting platform.   We have a tendency to tell our children not to feel, either because we don’t want them to feel badly, we don’t understand how they could feel one way or another, or we just don’t feel that way ourselves.  We say things like, “Don’t be shy or don’t be sad”, but the reality is they ARE shy and the ARE sad.  Pff is as easy as teaching your kids the abc’s and just as important.  Everyone knows you need to learn the alphabet in order to succeed in school. Well, in order to succeed in relationships you need to learn the abc’s of your feelings and how your feelings make you behave.  Just like you teach your kids their letters first, then show them how letters make up words and eventually sentences, it is equally necessary as parents to teach kids what they feel so they can learn how to deal with their behavior.

What Do I Do With The Package?

Let Pocket Full of Feelings (pff) equip you to:

·      figure out what feeling is causing your child’s behavior

·      teach new constructive ways to your children so they can positively deal with the way they feel

When your pff package arrives, just like any other gift your kids receive, they’re going to want to touch it, so let them!  Help them, or take out yourself, each pff piece (Parent Guide, Storybook, Feel and Deal Guide, Poffer and the Poffer cards, pff pockets). Then, let them choose whichever piece they want to explore first.  There is no ‘right’ order or way to start using pff.  Let your child guide you and go with it! If your child asks, “What is this?” say, “This is the Pocket Full of Feelings (or“pff”) game.”  If they say, “How do you play?” say, “Let’s find out together how this pff game works.” From there, look at the pff  feeling ‘poffs’ together.  Introduce ‘Poffer’, the pff wise owl and say, “Poffer is the wise pff owl who will show you what to do with all of your feelings.”

Each piece of the pff package is labeled, so even if your child cannot read yet, you will be able to read the words for them and if they are a reader you can read it together.

So remember:

·      Pff is for children of all ages between 4-11

·      All children behave because of the way they feel

·      Feelings are real and something we feel

·       what matters the most is the way that we deal

*See The Pocket Full of Feelings Parent Guide for detailed examples and steps on how to use and teach the pff process with your children