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Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

by Alyssa Blask Campbell

Practical tools for children’s big feelings

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    New York Times Bestseller

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Practical tools for children’s big feelings

Alyssa Blask Campbell’s guide centers on Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP), an approach the book presents for helping children recognize and work through difficult feelings. Its practical scope includes tantrums, separation anxiety, school refusal, bedtime resistance, and hitting or biting, with suggested scripts and strategies for supporting self-regulation. The guidance also asks caregivers to notice their own responses as they help children handle emotions such as anger, sadness, shame, and anxiety. Aimed especially at those caring for children from infancy to age eight, the book connects everyday behavior challenges with emotional skills including empathy and coping.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Caregivers of children from infancy to age eight seeking approaches to tantrums and meltdowns.
  • Parents and educators interested in emotional development and self-regulation.
  • Adults looking for scripts and strategies for challenging moments such as bedtime resistance or school refusal.

Themes

Emotional developmentTantrums and challenging behaviorSelf-regulation and copingCaregiver responsesParent-child relationships

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Book overview

New York Times Bestseller

The Future is Emotionally Intelligent

From two early childhood experts, an essential parenting guide for toddler behavior that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings--including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety--while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.

We're in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions: Don't Cry. You're Fine. Don't Make a Scene. As our understanding of developing brains has increased, today's parents are embracing conscious parenting and looking for a new way to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them.

Emotional development experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S. are at the forefront of a movement to foster little ones' emotional intelligence. Their revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide.

Tiny Humans, Big Emotions provides the tools to tackle every sort of stressful child-rearing situation, including:

- What to do when your child throws a tantrum (it's not what you think!)

- Helpful scripts to handle any challenging moment like school refusal and bedtime resistance

- How to react when your child hits, punches, or bites

- Easy tips that help regulate your child's nervous system

- How to anticipate and end meltdowns before they even begin

Designed for all humans--tiny and big--this book shows caregivers of children how to handle challenging behaviors and outbursts while empowering them to recognize and manage difficult feelings like anger, sadness, and shame, along with anxiety. All caregivers will find valuable insights and guidance in this book, especially those caring for children from infancy to age eight. Tiny Humans, Big Emotions equips adults with tools for emotional intelligence so they can respond with intention. This innovative, research-based approach teaches children self-regulation, empathy, and effective coping strategies, even as it strengthens the parent-child relationship, setting the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional resilience and wellbeing.

This book is an essential, empathetic guide for gentle parenting that will teach parents to notice their own habits and hold space for their tiny human's big emotions.

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