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What If It Was Never Anger

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When my little one was very little, I bought her books on emotions and anger.  We started really really small with an amazing book called My Many Colored Days, by Dr Seuss. Seriously if you have little ones you should check this book out. This one was about all the colors of emotions.  I bought it as a board book, and we carried it everywhere - from across town to see a friend to across the sea to work and see friends in other countries.  We used different voices for different colors/emotions.  We had to replace it, because we wore the book out....  That was okay, though - we knew it so well, we could recite it without the book.  I can still see the pages and hear those voices rising up and lilting off of the pages: Some days are yellow Some are blue On different days I'm different too You'd be surprised how many ways I change on different colored days..... And we'd end every time with "The many colors of you, my boo, the many colors o...