Today’s holiday gift recommendation is perhaps not a gift you’d get for someone outside your own family, but if you’re a parent, Onionhead can teach your children about emotions and how to deal with them appropriately.
Onionhead offers tools to help kids and adults make friends with their feelings. Their goal is to help everyone learn to “name, claim, tame and aim” their feelings. We’ve been trying out the Onionhead A-Z Magnet Set for the past few weeks and it’s been an enlightening experience. A representative from Onionhead suggested I put the magnet set on my refrigerator and say nothing at all about it to my kids. I did so and within a few hours my 11 year old son was looking over the feelings and labeling them with the accompanying “I feel” and “I want to feel” magnets. We’ve since talked about a lot of the feelings on the magnet set and how to deal with them. It’s a non-confrontational way for me to know how he is feeling and for him to communicate with me.
Today I have an Onionhead Children’s Package to give away. It includes the Children’s Deck of 52 Feeling Cards: 26 positive feeling cards and their 26 opposites, along with five exercises to encourage creativity, communication, development of healthy emotional expression and problem solving skills. The Children’s A-Z Dictionary of 52 Emotions makes it simple for children to know what to do with what they feel.
Leave a comment here to enter and re-tweet (using the re-tweet button at the top of this post) for an extra entry. Winner will be chosen through random.org on Tuesday, November 24th at 8 am.
Congrats to our winner, Tracy!
Disclosure: I received complimentary review and giveaway products from Onionhead at the Time to Play Holiday Showcase. No payment was received for this blog post.
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Looks like a great HS resource
These sound great. I haven’t gotten past tantrums and “I’m happy” with my son so a resource would be a great help.
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I want to try this out. With three boys, not much feeling talk going on.
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Sounds like a neat way to get kids into discussing their feelings…esp. difficult if you have a boy.
Boys, husband, male dog…surrounded by too much testosterone. Nobody seems to share their feelings and I just seem to keep mine inside. This book looks like a must buy!
Sounds like an interesting way to get a conversation started!
This sounds great for my keep everything inside little girl. Even if I don’t win the drawing I am going to try and get this. I think it would really help her.
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I am a new subscriber..and these look really cool! My oldest daughter is really hard on herself. Winner or not, we’ll be checking these out!
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I’ve been looking for something like this. What a great tool!
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11.18.09 at 4:10 pm
love it!!! Big into emotions in our family!! :)
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Looks like a great resource! I’m going to look into it more! Thanks for sharing this!
Stopping by from SITS. Wow, what an incredible wealth of articles and resources. The message of your blog really spoke to me. This Onionhead series sounds like just what the doctor ordered for my eight year old daughter who is a happy and passionate child, but also battles with some pretty strong negative emotions. Thank you so much!
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11.22.09 at 10:08 am
With recent changes to our family, this might be just what we need. Thank you for posting this!
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I would love to win this for my grandchildren! Thanks so much for the chance :)
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This would be great for my grand daughter. She is 5 and there are times when she is not sure how to express her emotions sometimes which can lead to a total meltdown. She’s also been coming home from kindergarten with some questions about how other kids are acting. She’s such a caring child i know she is not sure how to help and this could show her how to deal with that. Plus this could this grandma not over react.
My little ones could really benefit from these!
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I couldn’t have come across your blog at a better time. You have such great information about parenting. I am going to try out this onionhead thing, it sounds fascinating.