Gabrielle Union Dishes On Her New Kids’s E-book, ‘Shady Child Feels’

Gabrielle Union and husband Dwayne Wade‘s 3-year-old daughter Kaavia James is not any stranger to throwing tantrums — actually, her outbursts are what impressed the pair’s new youngsters’s e-book, Shady Child Feels: A First E-book of Feelings.

The e-book is illustrated by Tara Nicole Whitaker and highlights adventures with the younger one — who’s gone viral on social media for her expressive faces — as she tries to higher perceive her emotions and learns to relay them to others.

Very like their marriage, the couple had a “lot of collaboration, cooperation and compromise” whereas writing the piece.

The image e-book focuses on how the well-known pair are attempting to show Kaavia to make use of her phrases, as Union defined, “Are you scared? Are you drained? Are you bored? Are you annoyed? Simply attempting to assist her perceive what she is definitely feeling so she will be able to share with adults, so we will know tips on how to assist her.”

The L.A.’s Most interesting actress acknowledged that understanding a toddler’s feelings could be difficult and draining.

“I by no means thought I might be the one that would cry with my youngster by way of a tantrum, however I cry on a regular basis,” she admitted. “As a result of it is essentially the most helpless feeling there’s, that there is one thing fallacious together with your child. You don’t have any concept tips on how to assist or what particularly it’s. So this e-book is for each of us. I do know that there is numerous mother and father and youngsters going by way of this who want all the assist that they’ll get.”

The e-book differs from its prequel because it’s extra than simply problem-solving. “That is actually extra for youthful toddlers who’re simply now studying who they’re and that they’ve massive emotions,” shared the Deliver It On star. “This e-book is simply to provide these further instruments as they’re studying language and figuring out feelings.”

Union spoke concerning the e-book writing princess in an interview with Leisure Weekly.