Some Nights I Flip My Lid: Learning to Be a Calm, Cool Kid

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!

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.