Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids

By: Eileen Kennedy-Moore, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Eileen Kennedy-Moore

As a parent, you can't make friends for your children, nor can you prevent them from ever feeling hurt or upset. But with the right guidance, you can support them in learning how to solve problems, cope with feelings, and build satisfying relationships.

Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids gives you access to the same practical advice and actionable plans that Dr. Kennedy-Moore - an in-demand psychologist and author who serves on the advisory board for Parents magazine - shares with clients in her Princeton, New Jersey, practice. Drawing from the her extensive clinical experience - as well as personal experience as a mother of four - these 12 lectures provide a deeper understanding of your child's development and ways to address common stumbling blocks with compassion.

In the first half, you'll focus on emotional intelligence and the pivotal role parents can play in helping children understand and cope with their feelings. You'll discover strategies for managing early-childhood meltdowns; simple techniques to inspire cooperation; constructive ways to deal with back-talk, aggression, and unkind behavior; methods to help children cope with anxiety; and more.

In the latter half, you'll turn to social intelligence and the challenges children face in making friends, plus practical ways you can guide them through the process. Here, you'll explore how you can support your child in getting along with others; being a good sport; handling conflicts; dealing with bullying; and coping with gossip and cliques.

You'll conclude with a candid discussion of friendship in the digital age, looking at video game playing and the relatively new but troubling phenomena of cyberbullying and "Facebook depression".

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Helps understand kids

Very good book, explains what kids are going through, gives practical advice. The author who is also the narrator is excellent

Excellent

I have not taken a comparative looks at the literature, but she seemed to have a mature mastery of the material. It would have been nice to have more 'deconstructive' arguments against common unhealthy practices.

What a great lecture for parents

This was such a good lecture that I'll listen to it again. It helps parents
understand the way their children think and how to bring up their child.

Excellent

Excellent summary of all key matters that the title promises. Lots of valuable and practical advices for parents and kids.

simply fantastic

I loved this work so much that half way through I was telling my wife to start it and looking forward to listening to it again.
the reader is also great, timing, inflection, tone, everything keeps these heavy topics easy to stick with.
the author lives in the real world and all her suggestions are based on reality and not a fantasy utopia where parents and kids are always perfect.
I was laughing outloud at points where I could see my children as she was describing situations.
I would recommend this book to anyone with or about to have children.