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

Navigating the intense feelings of young children can be overwhelming. Traditional approaches often dismiss a child's emotions, leaving parents searching for effective ways to support their little ones through tantrums, meltdowns, and defiance.

Understanding the developing brain reveals the importance of fostering emotional intelligence from an early age. This shift in parenting recognizes that children need guidance to comprehend and process their feelings, rather than being told to suppress them.

From early childhood experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S., Tiny Humans, Big Emotions offers a revolutionary approach. Their Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method provides parents with practical tools to manage challenging situations. This indispensable guide equips caregivers with strategies for common issues like separation anxiety, school refusal, and bedtime resistance, teaching children to recognize and manage difficult emotions like anger, sadness, and shame.

This New York Times Bestseller is designed for caregivers of children from infancy to age eight. It empowers adults to respond with intention, fostering self-regulation, empathy, and strengthening the parent-child bond. The result is a foundation for lifelong emotional resilience and well-being, helping both tiny humans and the adults who care for them.