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

Books About Feelings for Kids: Building Empathy on Purpose
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: Building Empathy on Purpose
Empathy gets talked about as a trait some kids have — but it's more accurately a skill stack: noticing anot...
Books About Feelings for Kids: Jealousy and the New Baby
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids: Jealousy and the New Baby
The baby comes home, everyone coos — and your firstborn, who begged for a sibling, is suddenly hitting, reg...
Books About Feelings for Kids Who Feel Everything Deeply
Jul 09, 2026
Books About Feelings for Kids Who Feel Everything Deeply
Some children come with the volume turned up. They cry at the sad part of songs, absorb the mood of a room ...
Do Social Emotional Books for Kids Actually Work?
Jul 09, 2026
Do Social Emotional Books for Kids Actually Work?
It's a fair, slightly heretical question for a books site to answer: do social emotional books for kids act...
Social Emotional Books for Kids After a Hard Day
Jul 09, 2026
Social Emotional Books for Kids After a Hard Day
You can tell the second they're in the car: something happened. The shrug, the "nothing," the door-slam ene...
Social Emotional Books for Kids: Reading Them as a Family
Jul 09, 2026
Social Emotional Books for Kids: Reading Them as a Family
Social emotional books for kids are usually deployed one-on-one — one parent, one child, one feelings story...
Gentle Parenting Phrases: 15 Swaps for the Hard Moments
Jul 09, 2026
Gentle Parenting Phrases: 15 Swaps for the Hard Moments
Gentle parenting lives or dies in word choice — the limit stays identical; the delivery decides whether it ...
Gentle Parenting When You Weren't Raised That Way
Jul 09, 2026
Gentle Parenting When You Weren't Raised That Way
Here's the sentence half the gentle parenting movement whispers to itself: I'm trying to give my kid someth...
Gentle Parenting Explained: Firm, Kind, and Misunderstood
Jul 09, 2026
Gentle Parenting Explained: Firm, Kind, and Misunderstood
Gentle parenting might be the most misnamed movement in modern childrearing — the word "gentle" makes peopl...