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

  From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook 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. The Future is Emotionally Intelligent Childhood is filled with wonder—and also lots of tears. Scraped knees. Bruised egos. Tantrums. As children, we may have been taught to minimize or bury our emotions: Don’t cry. It’s not a big deal. Calm down. Though well intentioned, this parenting approach didn’t give us any actual understanding of why we feel what we feel and how to handle big emotions. As parents ourselves, we can forget that three-year-olds can zip their own jackets so we do it for them, and yet we still expect them to manage strong emotions by themselves. As science expands our understanding of the developing brain, we know—now more than ever before—how important it is to raise emotionally intelligent children who are able