Spike Learns to Listen: A Saguaro's Guide to Quiet Ears and Open Hearts (Digital Home & Family Edition)

Conversations are a team sport, but sometimes excitement gets the best of us!

Bring the therapeutic power of the Spike Learns series into your home with the complete, high-resolution digital edition of Spike Learns to Listen. Optimized for reading on tablets, laptops, or projecting at home, this interactive digital package is designed to preserve your child’s confidence and self-esteem while teaching critical listening skills.

Spike loves his buzzing desert home and has so many big thoughts to share! But when his enthusiasm turns into over-talking and constantly interrupting, his desert friends start to feel left out. Written by Board-Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Child Mental Health Specialist Rebecca Gassett, this book uses gentle, trauma-informed desert metaphors to help eager talkers manage their conversational impulses.

INCLUDES THE COMPLETE 87-PAGE INTEGRATED WORKBOOK!

Your digital download features the full storybook plus an extensive, multi-page therapeutic activity zone built right into the back of the file. Ready to print at home, these evidence-based tools include:

• The Conversation Catch Game: Interactive lessons that use a visual ball-handling analogy to teach balanced, respectful turn-taking.
• Real-Life Conversation Scenarios: Practical home and playground examples featuring "Dropped Ball" mistakes to help kids practice making "Team Throws."
• Stop & Think (Count to 5): A concrete, child-friendly cognitive brake to help children regulate their conversational timing.
• 2 Ears and 1 Mouth Framework: Memorable biology-based tracking to help children balance internal output with external input.
• The Sound Interrupter Activity: Fun, focus-building exercises designed to help kids isolate environmental sounds and override immediate impulses.
• Whole-Body Listening Tools: A gorgeous, 6-step coloring pathway and anchor chart to practice tracking focus from head to toe.
• The Practitioner & Parent Guide: Professional clinical insights into childhood executive dysfunction, tackling "Inner Noise," and mastering the "Focus-Sip" breathing transition.

License Type: Home & Family License. This digital file is authorized for single-household personal use only. Sharing, redistributing, or utilizing this file across institutional settings, schools, or daycares is strictly prohibited. For classroom or commercial use, please purchase our Classroom & Daycare License edition.

What's Included: 1 high-resolution, print-ready PDF containing the full 32-page storybook and the 87-page clinical workbook framework.