The Monster on the Wrong Side of the Bed: A Limerick of Crashing Feelings

This kid-friendly limerick isn’t about a scary monster, but it is a book that shares the story of a young boy who goes through an array of feelings throughout his day. This book features video-game style characters to connect with a younger crowd and is ideal for anyone working with a child to help them understand their emotions and triggers for their emotions.

This picture book was written by a child therapist and designed to be read by parents, therapists, psychotherapists, counselors, school counselors, social workers, teachers, play therapists, paraprofessionals, behavior aids, social emotional specialists and other grown-up helpers working to teach children how to recognize and acknowledge feelings and triggers of others, as well explore and identify similar experiences. If you have or work with a child that is experiencing difficulty recognizing triggers, identifying their emotions, using healthy coping skills, recognizing social cues in others and acknowledging and respecting feelings of others as being valid. The book contains discussion prompts at the end to use with your child to assist them with processing this story and relating it to their own life.

This book was designed to help children ages 4 through 11 years old in the following elementary school grades:

• Kindergarten
• 1st grade
• 2nd grade
• 3rd grade
• 4th grade
• 5th grade

This is a multi-layered social emotional book that can help your child learn to understand and process their emotions, feelings, symptoms and triggers of others, as well as internally.