Nurture Your Child's Emotional Intelligence: 5 Steps to Help Your Child Cope with Big Emotions and Build Resilience

We teach our children how to tie their shoelaces, how to read, how to ride a bike. We explain the weather and rainbows and why people have jobs. But when it comes to explaining the forceful, baffling, intense and marvellous emotions that we might experience, well, things become vague.

Nurturing your child's 'emotional intelligence', so they can understand and process their own emotions, is one of the most important things you can teach your child. But parents are often at a loss as to how best to do this. And your child's big, complex emptions can also be somewhat scary.

In this book, clinical psychologist and family therapist Dr Anne Lane provides a compass through that haze of uncertain emotional parenting, to help parents teach their children the crucial life skills that create emotional intelligence. She equips you to understand your child's emotions from pre-schooler through to pre-teen and, importantly, gives you the tools and advice you need to help THEM accept and understand these emotions.

As the conversation around children's mental health continues to grow, this is the book all parents need.

Dr Anne Lane is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. For more than twenty years she has worked in mental health, both in the NHS and her own private practice. She is a lively, passionate communicator who cares deeply about the lives of adults, families and children she works with.