Karamo and his son Jason Brown wrote a children's book called I Am OK to Feel to help kids, especially Black boys, talk about emotions after the pandemic. The book combines a story with activity pages and parent resources for emotional conversations.
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Hey friends, welcome back to the show. So I have something very exciting happening today in my life. And as you all know, being a parent is something I'm most proud of. And my children teach me something new every day, just like I teach them something new. And so to announce what I'm about to announce, I wanna bring out my son. Y'all remember my son Jason. Jason, come on out, Prince. Hey. Hi, friends. Hey, Dad. How you doing? I'm good. Good. All right, so we have some very exciting news. Jason and I collaborated and wrote a children's book together. And it is called I Am OK to Feel. And it is a book that everyone in the audience is going to get to go home with a copy for. What? What? What? What? What? I was hoping to get one. I got it. What the heck? I'm so excited. Before my giveaway starts, so just to let you all know, I wrote this book because first of all, there's not too many books out there that talk to kids about how they're feeling, talk to them about processing their emotions, and especially after 2020, 2021. That pandemic. Exactly. We can all, no shade. Yeah, no shade. No shade. We could all learn how to talk about our feelings and know that it's okay to be with our feelings. And as Jason was younger, there was a lot of times where we had to stop, and especially as Black men, where we're not taught, and men period, Black men, we're not taught how to talk about what we're going through. You know, we're only taught either you need to be happy and you need to have Black boy joy, or you gotta be angry. And it's like, there's a whole range of emotions. Whole plethora of emotions. Okay, not plethora, yes. All right, plethora. All right, plethora, I'm with it, all right. So we wrote this book in order to teach people how to talk to their kids about what they're feeling. We're really proud of it. What you gotta say? I'm very excited about this book. I cannot wait for you guys to read it. Something that I'm really excited about is just the motion. Well, I know I can't give too much up, but we have— Why you can't give it up? The book come out today. Tell the people why they need to buy the book. Yo, yo, we have emotional inside of here, you guys. Have activities. They did amazing work in here just to give you guys pointers and tips. So it's, yes, resources, activities that you can use actually. So not only is it a fun book, it's modeled after us. Yeah. Look, we look cute. I mean, super duper cute. That's Jason. He look cute. That's us. Come on now. Yeah, that's us. That's us. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We did it. All right, so listen, everyone. But there's more. My publisher, Zando, is giving viewers a chance to come see my show. For more details, head to the link listed on the screen below. And I hope to see you soon in this audience. And I just really hope that every single one of you enjoy this book. We put a lot of heart and soul into it. Thank you. Hold on, where you going? I'll tell you where you're going. Right here to subscribe and right here to watch more, period.
