Bøker av Karen Porter

Confidence is learned. Everyone wants to be confident, but you need to learn what makes you feel confident and share that with others. Everyone has different things that make them feel confident. Cal feels confident when he jumps. Ada feels confident when she pretends to cook. Ben feels confident when he can act in a costume. Book eight of the I Feel ? When ? book series shows how many monster friends play together in a way to help everyone feel confident. They cope with their desire to feel confident by sharing what makes them confident and finding an activity they can all do what they do well. Each monster struggles with finding a way to work together and do what they can do well. They work out their feelings producing a play together. This colorful book opens the door to discussing confidence in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways.Many of the words in the book are basic sight words.. Sight words are a subset of high-frequency words that do not sound the way they are spelled and are therefore not easily learned. Identifying these words and then finding them in the story will build literacy. Using words that students are familiar with helps them build fluency and flow as they read. Teaching students to memorize these words, by sight, helps them read faster with confidence. As you read through this series the young reader can develop mastery of all the sight words.Each story also contains a feeling word to build emotional literacy.

Have you or someone love ever got lost in a store? Did you feel anxious when you could not find the person you came to the store with? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a two friends Ben and Cal who get lost in a store together and cannot find their moms. They want to explore the kites in the store and leave their mothers' sides. They both look up and down the store aisles at things they find interesting. Then suddenly, they feel anxious because they do not know where to go to find their moms. Ben is anxious when he cannot see his mom in the store. Because they are friends with feelings, they share how they are feeling while they try to find their moms. Finally, they find their moms. Will they both apologize for wandering off? Will they be reunited with their moms? Read this story to find out how these friends help each other and cope with anxiety and resolve their problem. See how they manage to observe and communicate their feelings of anxiety after getting lost. Explore how it can help to have friends understand you and be patient when you get anxiety. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets anxiety sometimes, and it is ok to get anxiety and tell people, but not ok to do things that will create more anxiety in your life. This is the fifth book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel? When?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel.

For every woman who knows a little chocolate is good for the soul. Stimulating. Satisfying. Tantilizing. Delicious. Chocolate is that sweet "something extra” that infuses anything ordinary with delectable flavor and zest. In the same way, loving friendships can sweeten a woman's life and make almost any situation — good or bad — taste even better. Blending true stories and several original choclate recipes with rich biblical examples, Karen Porter explores eight ways that friends can help one another enjoy life — and point each other to the God who made every good and perfect gift — especially chocolate!