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A touching children's rhyming story and picture book about loving someone with mental illness - Keep reading to teach kids about empathy, kindness, and open communication! ""Uncle Jay Has a Booboo"" is a heartwarming story between a little girl and her uncle Jay who has schizophrenia.Mental illness is an invisible disease and people who suffer from them are treated as outcasts. Even more concerning, kids with loved ones who suffer from mental illness are also affected emotionally, socially, and behaviorally. This book seeks to change that by teaching kids kindness, empathy, resilience, and love despite what their parents or other caregivers are going through. At the end of the day, this book is meant to become a communication tool to help ease children's confusion and help them create positive coping skills when dealing with loved ones who are suddenly behaving oddly. If you're looking to reduce the stigma associated with a difficult mental condition that may create threatening and challenging situations for your child, then this book is for you.

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An effective tool to help ease children's confusion and teach them about resilience when dealing with loved ones who have mental illness: Empathy It's never too early to teach kids about being sensitive to how someone else is feeling, even when they aren't in the same situation. Kindness Teach kids to show kindness and how much courage, honesty, and creative thinking it needs to make others feel appreciated, seen, and heard. Open communication Good communication is key to children's relationships and development. This book shows them how to practice good listening and communication that make others feel important and valued.

The sweet color illustrations capture Uncle Jay's struggle with concrete metaphors, placing clouds and storms around his head to show his sadness and employing a cute dragon companion to demonstrate how he sees things that others don't.- Kirkus Reviews This is a heartfelt, compassionate story for young children to help them understand and deal with their emotions and confusions with mental illness. The font is too difficult for young children to read unless it's meant to be read to them and discussed.- Belinda G, Author This heartwhelming book aims to explain mental health with empathy and sensitivity. Since I'm in healthcare, I'm constantly searching for books to help children understand complicated topics and diagnoses of their loved ones. This is a topic of books we need more of asap. Uncle Jay Has a Booboo has a needed message with lovely illustrations. This is a book every child should read with their family to increase their compassion and understanding. This goes in the forever section of the family library at home.- Stephanie from stephsbooktherapy, Mental Health Professional Bravo to the author to taking on this subject it is good to get children a little more understanding about mental illness. This book does a wonderful job of keeping it in a normal sense and treating it like the illness it is. Simply wonderful. I found this book on a book blog that shares kindle unlimited book and we picked it up and read it together and had some wonderful conversations. it was brilliant.- Booklover, Author Reviews Wonderful book for helping kids deal with the mental health issues of others!- B.J. McKay, Author I love this little book, not only for the great message it carries about noticing a loved one for who they are and not for what afflicts them, but also because of the lovely art style and the main character's perceptiveness. Emotional awareness and intelligence are incredibly important things, and it brings me comfort to see topics like this in a children's book format. A lovely story, one great for children everywhere.- J. Flowers-Olnowich, Author Reviews This is a lovely story about compassion and empathy toward a family member with a mental illness. It is beautifully and compassionately handled in a way that children can understand. Highly recommend.- Sheryl B, Author Reviews Mental health is underrated and this book addresses it with sensitivity. Easy to understand. Well-written. Lovely illustrations. Read it to your kids. Keep forever.- Lulu James, Amazon Reviewer

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