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Stories, tips, and things we've learned about raising kids with big feelings.

Social Emotional Learning for Kids: A Parent's Plain Guide
Jul 09, 2026
Social Emotional Learning for Kids: A Parent's Plain Guide
The newsletter says the school "integrates SEL." The report card has a section for it. And nobody has ever ...
Positive Discipline for Kids: Praise That Actually Works
Jul 09, 2026
Positive Discipline for Kids: Praise That Actually Works
Everyone talks about the correction half of positive discipline for kids. The praise half gets ignored — an...
Positive Discipline for Kids: When Parents Disagree
Jul 09, 2026
Positive Discipline for Kids: When Parents Disagree
You've read the books and switched to teaching-based discipline. Your partner thinks a firmer hand worked f...
Positive Discipline for Kids in Public (Store Meltdowns)
Jul 09, 2026
Positive Discipline for Kids in Public (Store Meltdowns)
The meltdown at home is hard. The meltdown in aisle six, with three strangers watching, is a different spor...
Books About Feelings for Kids: The Complete Shelf Checklist
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: The Complete Shelf Checklist
Here's a quiet problem with most families' feelings shelves: they're five books about the same feeling. Pub...
What to Say After Books About Feelings for Kids (The Protocol)
Jul 09, 2026
What to Say After Books About Feelings for Kids (The Protocol)
You found the perfect feelings story, read it beautifully, closed the cover — and then, with the best inten...
Books About Feelings for Kids: Understanding Overwhelm
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: Understanding Overwhelm
There's a meltdown that confuses parents more than any other: the one with no villain. Nothing bad happened...
Books About Feelings for Kids: Worry, Fear & Self-Doubt
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: Worry, Fear & Self-Doubt
Worry in children is a shape-shifter. Sometimes it's loud (the bedtime "what if" spiral); sometimes it wear...
Books About Feelings for Kids: Handling Anger the Right Way
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: Handling Anger the Right Way
Anger is the feeling parents most want books to fix — and the feeling children's publishing most often gets...