Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens

Kids today are growing up in a time of emotional overload: anxiety, stress, sadness, loss, and rapid change. Many parents feel unprepared, rushing to solutions, and inadvertently minimize their child’s feelings. It seems we all want to know how we can best help manage our child’s emotions—as well as our own—in today’s chaotic world.
 
Enter Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens, a compassionate and practical guidebook for managing emotions. Instead of shielding our kids from difficult topics, parents will learn simple, science-backed strategies for guiding kids through their feelings. With Dr. Tamar Chansky’s practical “Seven Shifts,” kids will learn how to navigate the two parts of any emotion—first to sit and feel, and then to solve and heal. Whether with anxiety, anger, grief, sadness, trauma, kids will learn emotional resilience skills that will serve them for a lifetime.
 
Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens shares a roadmap to guide your child through just about every possible emotional turmoil scenario. This reassuring, empathetic, practical guide…
 

• Covers the full span of kids’ emotional challenges and experiences
• Takes a deep dive into one emotion at a time
• Provides creative, memorable, and easy interventions
• Offers skills and strategies to navigate academic pressure, social stress, and real-life fears such as climate change, gun violence.
• Includes specific scripts and exercises for toddlers to teens…and more

 
Raising emotionally equipped kids is what every parent wants. This accessible guide provides parents with tools to help their kids navigate everyday ups and downs so they can grow toward independence and thrive emotionally, developmentally, and socially.