The difficult emotions expressed by preschool and school-age children, such as loneliness, pain, terror, sadness, sorrow, heartache, depression, anger, obstinacy, disappointment, and fear, require discretion, sensitivity, imagination, and knowledge from adult caregivers in their management!

The six stories offer the reader innovative, modern, and effective practices for addressing these emotions. Within these short stories, we tackle problems that children and their caregivers—parents and educators—face daily, who are called to help them overcome these challenges.

The scientific background and techniques of each story are based on the works of: Dr. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD (2011) The Whole Brain Child, Delacorte Press, New York. Creative Translation-Editing: Brace Social Coop and Thomas Gordon (2009) The Secrets of Effective Parenting.

The stories with techniques are:

• Her friends don't play with her during recess. Emotions come and go.
• She fails the math test. The wheel of awareness.
• She didn't recite her poem well at the school festival. Self-talk.
• He shouts in the supermarket to buy him something. Vertical boundaries, clear discussion, enforcement of consequences.
• She doesn't want to eat her food. Engage her, don't frustrate her: appeal to the upper brain.
• He is afraid to sleep. Change the images.