What to Do When You Feel Like Hitting: A No Hitting Book for Toddlers (Big Feelings Books for Toddlers)

Great book to help encourage children to use kind hands and discourage hitting. Highly recommend.

Brilliant book, my daughter loves it (2 year old). I love how it shows emotions with children and people instead of characters or animals

Pretty good, maybe a little bit too long, my 3 year old just manages to sit through it. It does have simple good ideas for little ones to manage their anger

Good book for toddlers to understand boundaries.

I bought this for my daughter to read to my 2 year old granddaughter who was going through a phase of hitting! She loves books so thought this was best way to get through to that her behaviour was not acceptable. They read the book every evening before bed - the hitting stopped and she could relate to her feelings. Who would have thought that a book could have such a positive effect in such a short amount of time but it worked!

Our little one often chooses this book at story time. There are practical suggestions for helping process strong feelings. Overall a very helpful and engaging book for dealing with emerging aggressive behaviour.

Good book, my toddler loves to read it, hoping it helps us out of this toddler phase!

Really works with kids

Great book for kids to teach big emotions.

Great book for children struggling with hitting. After one week of reading our toddler has learned to cope in different ways with the help of this book. I think it does a great job at outlining frustration and how to manage the behaviour. 10/10 recommend

My 3 year old son went through a rough patch with hitting when our second child came home. It was pretty awful and not much seemed to get through. He did enjoy this book and although he struggled to implement the techniques when he was heightened, he did enjoy the book. It seemed to help with him identifying his emotions etc and often after a meltdown he would request it as his bed time book that night.

This book has been a wonderful addition to our toddler’s library. We bought it to help teach that it’s okay to have big feelings, but it’s not okay to hit. Instead, we’re working on using words like “No, thank you” to express frustration or set boundaries. The story is simple, age-appropriate, and easy for toddlers to understand. It has given us a consistent way to talk about emotions and reinforce positive behaviors during everyday situations. While no book is a magic fix, this has been a really helpful conversation starter and a great tool to support what we’re teaching at home. I highly recommend it for parents navigating the toddler years.

very useful and informative book