Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens

Your go-to guide to raising healthy, confident, independent kids.

“An extraordinary, science-backed resource that equips parents to become the steady, compassionate guides their children need.”

—Michele Borba, EdD, author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine

Kids today are growing up in a time of emotional overload: anxiety, stress, sadness, loss, and rapid change. Many parents feel unprepared, rushing to solutions, and inadvertently minimize their child’s feelings. It seems we all want to know how we can best help manage our child’s emotions—as well as our own—in today’s chaotic world.
 
Enter Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens, a compassionate and practical guidebook for managing emotions. Instead of shielding our kids from difficult topics, parents will learn simple, science-backed strategies for guiding kids through their feelings. With Dr. Tamar Chansky’s practical “Seven Shifts,” kids will learn how to navigate the two parts of any emotion—first to sit and feel, and then to solve and heal. Whether with anxiety, anger, grief, sadness, trauma, kids will learn emotional resilience skills that will serve them for a lifetime.
 
Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens shares a roadmap to guide your child through just about every possible emotional turmoil scenario. This reassuring, empathetic, practical guide…
 

• Covers the full span of kids’ emotional challenges and experiences
• Takes a deep dive into one emotion at a time
• Provides creative, memorable, and easy interventions
• Offers skills and strategies to navigate academic pressure, social stress, and real-life fears such as climate change, gun violence.
• Includes specific scripts and exercises for toddlers to teens…and more

 
Raising emotionally equipped kids is what every parent wants. This accessible guide provides parents with tools to help their kids navigate everyday ups and downs so they can grow toward independence and thrive emotionally, developmentally, and socially.

 

• “Through practical tools, memorable strategies, real-life scenarios, and language parents can use in everyday moments, Dr. Chansky shows us that raising emotionally healthy kids isn’t about fixing their feelings, it’s about helping them navigate them with confidence, empathy, resilience and optimism. This must-read guide belongs on every parent’s and teacher’s nightstand!" 
  Michele Borba, Ed.D., author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
• “Dr. Tamar Chansky is one of the voices we trust most when it comes to helping children and families navigate the emotional challenges of growing up. She has a remarkable gift for translating the science of emotions into practical tools that genuinely help. Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens is a resource we know parents will return to again and again.” 
  Sissy Goff and David Thomas, New York Times  bestselling authors of Capable, hosts of The Raising Boys and Girls podcast, and co-executive directors at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN
• “There is much wisdom and compassion in this book, and a clear-eyed recognition that even the most caring parents can at times find themselves confused and uncertain when faced with their child's emotional reactions to the complexities of an ever-changing world. I highly recommend this resource to every parent.” 
  Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, ABPP, author of Stress Less: A Teen's Guide to a Calm Chill Life