Renea Skelton, LLC

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"Hi! I'm Henry. It's okay to talk about your feelings and that's what we're going to do! Come with me on an adventure through stories using Emotional Intelligence. Each adventure provides parents, teachers, and counselors conversational questions and tips to help navigate through a certain emotion. Take me to your home and school so I can guide you on how to manage emotions. Let's Go!"

As a Certified Emotional Intelligence Life Coach, I created an award-winning children's book series focused on increasing Emotional Intelligence (EI). I found that many children books do not intentionally address EI and little people have big emotions! The series is about an adventurous hedgehog who helps his friends address and navigate through their feelings. Each book intentionally focuses on an emotion and incorporates prompting questions for the child to answer. The questions spark crucial conversations in self-awareness. Additionally, each book provides facts, and the last page provides tips for the caregiver to help navigate through the emotion with the child.

Book #1: The Adventures of Henry the Hedgehog: The Case of the Missing Raspberries (emotion is anger)
Book #2: The Adventures of Henry the Hedgehog: The Watering Hole (emotion is sadness with a touch of bullying; the idea of wanting to belong to something versus just fitting in)
Book #3: The Adventures of Henry the Hedgehog: Hiding in the Forest (focus is on change and fear of the unknown)
Book #4: The Adventures of Henry the Hedgehog: The Harvest Moon Festival at Big Rock (emotion is grief)
Book #5: The Adventures of Henry the Hedgehog: The Great Oak Tree (emotion is worry, focus is anxiety)
Book #6: Currently in progress (emotion is disappointment, focus on failure)