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The emotionally healthy child : helping children calm, center, and make smarter choices / Maureen Healy.

Author:

Healy, Maureen, 1972- author.

ISBN:

9781608685622

Personal Author:

Healy, Maureen, 1972- author.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Contents:

Emotional learning -- Today's children -- The big picture -- Mindset -- Ideas -- Tools -- Insight -- Habits -- The toolbox -- Progress, not perfection -- About the author -- Gratitude -- Resources.

Abstract:

"A child psychologist describes the habits and attitudes of happy, well-adjusted children and shows parents how they can encourage these traits in their own children"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Emotions in children.

Child rearing.

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Library	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Status
Searching... LeRoy - Woodward Memorial Library	0662957	155.4124 HEAL	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Royalton-Hartland Community Library	34105000479946	155.412 HEAL	Searching... Unknown

Winner of Nautilus Book Award in Parenting & Family

While growing up has never been easy, today's world presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, posits Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Healy is an expert on teaching skills that address the high sensitivity, big emotions, and hyper energy she herself experienced growing up. Three simple steps are key -- Stop, Calm, and Make Smarter Choices. While not always easy, these steps are powerful, and Healy shows readers exactly how to implement them. Children move from acting out or shutting down, experiencing frequent physical symptoms such as head- and stomachaches, or hurting themselves or others, to recognizing they are being triggered, feeling their emotions, and using mindfulness strategies to respond from a calmer place.

Author Notes

Maureen Healy is a sought-after speaker, educator, and leader in the field of children's emotional health. Her popular blog on Psychology Today has reached millions of parents and educators wanting to learn the how of raising emotionally healthy children. The author of Growing Happy Kids, she works with parents, educators, and children worldwide.

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Booklist Review

Special Agent Oso, a popular children's TV sleuth, breaks down every process into three easy steps, then repeats them, making problem-solving appear seamless. Healy successfully uses a similar approach in her latest book on helping children regulate their emotions. Children's balanced emotional health is a goal for every parent, and for some, it's a struggle to reach and maintain that goal. Healy helps parents realize a level of emotional balance for their child, and parents may also apply her methods in their own lives. After all, as Healy reminds readers throughout, the path to emotional health is the path to happiness. Healy reaffirms that her goal isn't to give parents more to do but to make the time they spend with their children more effective. Known internationally for her work and her popular Growing Happy Kids (2012), Healy's books are a good fit for public library parenting collections as well as college library education and social work sections.--Joyce McIntosh Copyright 2018 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Child development expert Healy (Growing Happy Kids) describes her younger self as a wild child with many allergies, highly sensitive, who cried when teased, and felt things deeply. Specializing in holistic health, the author details steps to "stop, calm, and make smarter choices" (those that are good for the child and others). The focus here is on teaching children to master their emotions and move forward on their own unique paths toward wholeness through developing a healthy mind-set and habits. Healy demonstrates how the emotionally healthy child names feelings in themselves and others, expresses them constructively, uses self-control, -responds instead of reacts, and maintains equilibrium even when challenged. The work's second part is devoted to a mindfulness toolbox, which includes positive hints and suggestions for readers to incorporate in their daily lives. VERDICT This work will resonate with educators and child development professionals but especially appeal to parents of emotionally sensitive children. © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction	p. 1
Part 1 Emotional Learning
Chapter 1 Today's Children	p. 7
Chapter 2 The Big Picture	p. 23
Part 2 Mindset
Chapter 3 Ideas	p. 45
Chapter 4 Tools	p. 67
Chapter 5 Insight	p. 107
Part 3 Habits
Chapter 6 The Toolbox	p. 153
Chapter 7 Progress, Not Perfection	p. 191
Gratitude	p. 203
Resources	p. 205
Index	p. 209
About the Author	p. 219

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