My Day Is Ruined!: A Story for Teaching Flexible Thinking

I bought this book for my kids, as well as my classroom. It is a wonderful teaching tool for social emotional skills. It is well written and has a great guide for adults to help them to be able to teach "flexible thinking" skills. It is a great reminder for the adults too to be adaptable.

These books look great but too many words for my particular cohort so can't properly review. Definitely worth a look for other children.

Great book for reinforcing how to move forward when things don’t go your way

This book really clicked with my five year old!! It helps that he frequently exclaimed "MY DAY IS RUINED" before I saw and purchased this book so he could immediately relate. The four steps are easy to remember and we have successfully diffused a couple of screaming fits using them together which was both surprising and amazing. For him to have a success quickly diffusing a fit is HUGE. He is five but having some teaching experience myself I could definitely see older kids being able to relate to this book too. Braden's math problem "solution" was hilariously realistic! Love it and will be purchasing more Braden books soon! (My only complaint is the condition the book arrived I because it was only sent in bubble wrap, but I certainly will not be deducting stars for that!)

Bought this for my 9 year old son. We’ve been working through the scenarios, one at a time. The message is hitting home!