Little People, Big Feelings: The go-to parenting guidebook for dealing with big emotions and challenging behaviour in kids

Parenting educator and mother-of-four Gen Muir has helped thousands of families to navigate strong emotions and challenging behaviour in young kids. In Little People, Big Feelings, she shares her tried-and-tested techniques that work to build genuine connection, establish effective boundaries and develop emotional resilience that will last a lifetime.

Reassuring, compassionate and relatable, this book will help you through some of the most difficult moments of parenting – public meltdowns, bedtime struggles, school refusal, sibling rivalry – without losing your own mind or quashing your child’s spirit. Using stories, scripts and step-by-steps, Gen reveals how to communicate so your child can hear you, and how to welcome your child’s emotions in order to help them regulate.


You’ll also learn why:
* Setting firm and kind limits is essential for making our kids feel safe.
* Traditional approaches like timeouts, reward charts and a focus on praise or punishment aren’t effective for long-term behaviour change.
* Understanding our own response to our kids’ feelings is the key to becoming the parent we want to be.
* Connection is the key to enjoying parenthood more.
* It’s so important to show ourselves self-compassion when raising little people with big feelings.

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Macmillan Aust
Publication date: 30/01/2024