cvLearning To Relax; Quiet Your Thoughts and Calm Down, is the seventh in a series of fun rhyming books focused on serious subjects geared to help children learn new ways to work together and feel good about themselves. The series provides a roadmap to self-awareness that utilizes social and emotional learning techniques in order to help guide children along the way. Anxiety can terrorize and immobilize a child and too often seen as exaggerated and illogical. However, the child who experiences this anxiety it is very real and they cannot hide nor can they avoid acting out their fears. These intense feelings can be overwhelming and unbearable. Not only does Learning To Relax present others with ways to identify and predict stress, but it provides simple lessons on how to handle them. We have developed some easy strategies to plan and predict these stressors and subsequently help children to learn how to plot a course that bypasses the extremes. This approach reinforces the belief that almost always there are ways to experiences relief in small simple ways that ultimately help people feel good about themselves. Too often the child who struggles with anxiety, also experiences poor self-esteem and a paralyzing distress that interferes with school and with family. A child can become preoccupied with their fears and problems, stuck in that mindset that is often too hard and seemingly impossible to escape. These thoughts are often reinforced and acted out in a learning environment leading to increasing anxiety with anger and poor self-esteem with depression. Frequently after realizing you are not alone with the development a simple plan to identify stress helps a child to learn new skills that can help break the vicious cycle can be life changing. An improved sense of self worth frequently leads to improved social engagement and a decrease in a negative preoccupation with one’s unique demoralizing difficulties. Feeling nervous, uncomfortable and isolated from your community is difficult for anyone to overcome. A preoccupation with fears and anxiety will always interfere with a child’s learning, coping and ultimately happiness. Simple plans and viable options with peer and adult support are key in securing successful results. These positive feelings guarantee that children will find new and better ways to solve problems, get things done and ultimately feel good about who they are. Learning To Relax, helps children look at themselves as not alone, but as integral parts of larger communities. That picture begins to seem not as scary or as unobtainable as their once pessimisitic thoughts used to view the world. Words cannot express the transformation that occurs when a child stops the vicious cycle anxiety produces and they begin to step out from inside their clench fisted and isolated world to find a caring and a less intimidating world. All children deserve to feel safe, but it requires nonintimidating support and guidance.