What to Do When You Grumble Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Negativity (What-to-Do Guides for Kids Series)

My son is 9, gifted, grumbling about me buying this book and grumbling about having to read it. Even so, I have to say he was drawn into it almost immediately. The book uses really clear metaphors that are easy to go back to when confronted with a new problem. Especially loved the image of the boy who stands in front of a hurdle and shouts at it to move away. Now it's easy for me to refer to this image and tell him "don't be that boy!". The information in the book really works on several levels and gives useful tips and hints for the parents of grumblers as well. Regarding the American words in it that some parents complained about, I have to say that my son thought it was cool to read an American book for once. All in all, highly recommended.

We're only half way though, but this book is wonderful. It has challenged my daughters perspective on how people see things and has begun to give her tools to deal with problems in her life positively.

Hit the nail on the head! Identified the problems, broke them down into manageable bits, good suggestions for improving the situation and kept the child interested. Recommended

This is a perfect accompaniment to 'What to do when you worry too much". I bought both for my anxiety-ridden 9 year old daughter. She loves them and is the perfect age. It may be a little too old for say a 6 year old and maybe a little too babyish/patronising for teenagers I'd say. We slowly go through a few pages each night and I try to reinforce the messages in between times. It gives a visual representation of the problems children face and how they can get around/over them. My daughter loves all the drawing and interactiveness of these books. My only quibble is that I have to replace the americanisms like 'mad' with English versions e.g. 'cross'. Perhaps we could have an English version one day. Not sure if my drawing/writing phobic son would take to it quite as well.

A great book for troubled young minds

Love it, seems to help the kids a lot to understand themselves and their feelings better.Would recommend

A book recommended to us. My husband read through with my eldest and it's easy to follow. The pictures are good . Glad we got it. It arrived in plenty of time.

great for helping kids and adults sort problems. perfect quality fantastic condition

Boughy on recommendation of my childs counselor and am so glad we did. Has really helped us to help him understand his emotions and anxiety. I definitely recommend.

Gran libro para poder aprender a educar y gestionar las emociones de los niñ@s, y para adultos, ayuda a entendernos mucho mejor. Sin duda una gran compra. 100% recomendable.

My child found the book is cute and interesting. It helped to release her anxiety.

I am a homeschool mom and decided to focus on emotional health this year for my kids' Health subject. So far we had just been discussing feelings and recognizing and acknowledging them but I wanted to dive deeper to help my kids deal with their feelings/emotional issues as well. This book is so great for that. This is a book that a child could read to themselves and do the exercises alone but I chose to read it with all my kids together. I love the analogy of life as an obstacle course and the hurdles in life are the problems or challenges kids (and even grown-ups) have. I love how it encourages and guides kids on how to not just solve a problem but learn to get past it as well. It has been a great learning experience for my kids and for me. However, I will say, for my pre-teen and my ADHD child, they have a harder time letting go of the habit of grumbling and have added these exercises to their lists of complaints. But I'm working with them on it and I still think it's a great, easy-to-follow book and would recommend it to any parent.

It is a cut book to read to children or have them read when they are just in a bad mood.