Tiny Humans, Big Emotions

How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

By: Alyssa Blask Campbell, Lauren Elizabeth Stauble

Narrated by: Alyssa Blask Campbell

New York Times Bestseller The Future is Emotionally Intelligent From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings—including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety—while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.

We’re in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions: Don’t Cry. You’re Fine. Don’t Make a Scene. As our understanding of developing brains has increased, today’s parents are looking for a new way to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them.

Emotional development experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S. are at the forefront of a movement to foster little ones’ emotional intelligence. Their revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide.

Tiny Humans, Big Emotions provides the tools to tackle every sort of stressful child-rearing situation, including:

• What to do when your child throws a tantrum (it's not what you think!)

• Helpful scripts to handle any challenging moment like school refusal and bedtime resistance

• How to react when your child hits, punches, or bites

• Easy tips that help regulate your child’s nervous system

• How to anticipate and end meltdowns before they even begin

Designed for all humans—tiny and big—this book shows caregivers of children how to handle their children’s outbursts while empowering them to recognize and manage difficult feelings like anger, sadness, and shame, along with anxiety. All caregivers will find valuable insights and guidance in this book, especially those caring for children from infancy to age eight. Tiny Humans, Big Emotions equips adults with tools for emotional intelligence so they can respond with intention. This innovative, research-based approach teaches children self-regulation and empathy, even as it strengthens the parent-child relationship, setting the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional resilience and wellbeing.

This book is an essential, empathetic guide that will teach parents to notice their own habits and hold space for their tiny human's big emotions.

Good meat but offensively woke

Enjoyed the suggestions for switching negative to positive: don’t jump on the couch—> you can jump on the floor type thing but ‘how to talk so little kids will listen’ was much better & 0 wokeness.

So much insight into controlling emotions!!

Loved this title. It provided so much insight into emotions and ways to regulate. I have found some many of these techniques helpful in relating to my two year but also have learned SO many things that I apply to myself. I see a difference in how we interact and how I go about my daily life.

Must Read for all parents, grandparents, and guardians!

This book lays out tools to use when a child has big emotions and helps adults work on the same emotional intelligence meeting them wherever they are in their journey.

The attention to detail of kids emotions feelings.

Love that there is a language for kids to understand when we think their big emotions are to big

A step to learning self regulation and pass it down

Loved her voice and the stories that change your perspective on yourself and how to better handle big emotions