Looking for a calming down book for toddlers that actually helps children manage big feelings and emotional overwhelm?

How Do I Calm My Body? is a Montessori aligned picture book that helps toddlers and preschoolers understand emotional regulation, self control, breathing, and body awareness in calm and practical ways. Instead of using shame or punishment, this story explains how the body reacts to stress and teaches simple strategies children can actually practice.

Children learn: how big feelings affect the bodywhy breathing helps the nervous system slow downhow movement, routines, and calm spaces support regulationhow to notice body signals before emotions grow too bighow to ask for help safelythat emotional regulation grows slowly through practice

The book also includes engaging science and animal connections that make emotional regulation more concrete, memorable, and interesting for young children.

Experts in self regulation consistently emphasize calm adult modeling, structured routines, breathing strategies, and emotional safety as key foundations for emotional resilience during early childhood.

Written in a one sentence per page format, this book is ideal for families, classrooms, therapists, and early childhood programs looking for a self regulation book for toddlers, emotional regulation picture book, or a Montessori calm down book.