Raising Emotionally Strong Kids

Your child is on the floor over the wrong-colored cup, and you've read enough parenting books to know what you should feel. What you don't have are the words.

You believe feelings matter. You've nodded along to the theory. And then your kid is sobbing in the kitchen and you hear yourself say the exact thing you swore you'd never say. The question that keeps you up at night isn't whether emotions are important. It's simpler and more urgent: what do I actually say, in the moment, when the storm hits?

This book answers that question, and then keeps going. Emotional strength isn't a personality some kids are born with. It's a skill: noticing a feeling, naming it, finding where it sits in the body, and reaching for one next step. Skills can be taught. Inside, you'll find the plain-language tools to teach them, feeling by feeling, with the exact words to say and versions that grow from the toddler years to the door-slamming ones.

Inside this book:

• The NAME Method: a four-move tool your child learns to run on any big feeling.
• Word-for-word scripts for anger, fear, sadness, frustration, jealousy, shame, and overwhelm.
• Age-tiered versions of every tool, for little kids, the middle years, and pre-teens.
• A calm-down plan, a worry ladder, and a comeback routine your child can use without you.
• Clear signs for when a feeling is bigger than a tool, and how to get help.