Little People, Big Feelings [electronic resource]

Muir, Genevieve2024

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Parenting educator and mother-of-four Gen Muir has helped thousands of families to navigate strong emotions and challenging behaviour in young kids. In Little People, Big Feelings, she shares her tried-and-tested techniques that work to build genuine connection, establish effective boundaries and develop emotional resilience that will last a lifetime.Reassuring, compassionate and relatable, this book will help you through some of the most difficult moments of parenting - public meltdowns, bedtime struggles, school refusal, sibling rivalry - without losing your own mind or quashing your child's spirit. Using stories, scripts and step-by-steps, Gen reveals how to communicate so your child can hear you, and how to welcome your child's emotions in order to help them regulate.You'll also learn why:· Setting firm and kind limits is essential for making our kids feel safe.· Traditional approaches like timeouts, reward charts and a focus on praise or punishment aren't effective for long-term behaviour change.· Understanding our own response to our kids' feelings is the key to becoming the parent we want to be.· Connection is the key to enjoying parenthood more.· It's so important to show ourselves self-compassion when raising little people with big feelings.