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Product Description Teaching children to be calm and cool with life's challenges can be easier when they learn coping skills to handle their emotions. Some Nights I Flip My Lid follows 4th grader Grace who holds it together at school as she navigates the stressors of being a kid but unravels once in the safety of her home. Together with her family, she learns mindfulness strategies to help manage big emotions after a long day. This sequel to the bestseller Some Days I Flip My Lid is a colorful and delightfully engaging story for home or school, or whenever your child needs a mindful moment to be calm and cool. Bonus material for families, caregivers, and educators, including step-by-step instructions for teaching mindful grounding techniques! Review Some Nights I Flip My Lid is a powerful book for kids and the adults in their lives. Kellie Doyle Bailey provides us with a treasure of a story that provides an engaging and deeply relevant book that weaves together mindfulness, social-emotional learning, and emotional vocabulary in a very fun and rhythmic way. Our youth and families across the globe are yearning for ways to connect to the present moment with kindness and this book delivers a powerful way to get there! JG Larochette, Founder and Director, Mindful Live Project Some Nights I Flip My Lid is a wonderful resource for children and parents alike! Chris Willard, PsyD, author of Breathing Makes It Better, educator at Harvard Medical School As I read Some Nights I Flip My Lid I could not help but feel immense gratitude. This book is such a gift to educators and parents. My wish is for every educator to have this book as part of their classroom library and Read Aloud plan. Thank you, Kellie and Hannah, for sharing your knowledge, talent, and creativity with all of us. You provide us educational leaders with hope that there are manageable tools and support available for us to provide our hardworking, dedicated staff members. Please continue on this amazing journey, and congratulations on such a wonderful sequel to Some Days I Flip My Lid - another must-have for educators and parents. Julie Ann Smyth, M.Ed., Director of Curriculum and Instruction/Director of Saco, Maine Pre-K Kellie and Hannah Baily have done it again. They eloquently capture what I imagine we have all felt at times, both as young and adult learners. Their combined ability to put into words and images the internal dialogue of many of our students is powerful. Some Nights I Flip My Lid is an excellent text to use with children (and educators) as we work to infuse metacognitive and social emotional learning practices into our wok in schools and homes. Christine Frost-Bertinet, assistant superintendent, Windham Raymond School District, Maine About the Author Kellie Doyle Bailey, MA, CCC-SLP, MMT/SELI, is the proud mother of Hannah and Doyle Bailey who together were her best lidflipping life teachers. She is a veteran speech language pathologist of 30 years, certified mindfulness educator, and social emotional learning instructor. She is the founder of Calm Cool Kids Educate and works in Maine helping educators, students, and families learn about mindfulness strategies to stay calm and cool. Kellie has a strong background in social emotional learning and the neurodevelopment of children and is deeply committed to sharing mindfulness and SEL strategies with everyone who loves children. Kellie teaches Mindfulness in Education at The University of Maine in Farmington. She lives on the coast of Maine with her husband, Bruce, a lifelong Maine educator.