An essential guide for every parent who wants to help their child develop emotional resilience and a healthy relationship with their feelings. Nobody is born a parent. With parenting, you take on the greatest responsibility of your life, without training, without instruction manuals, and without help. What you need is to find the strength and the right guidance to raise your child through all the difficulties and adversities with love, empathy, and compassion.

In this book, based on the latest scientific findings and the author's extensive experience in trauma therapy, distinguished child psychologist Dr. Alison McClymont offers practical ideas and activities to help you and your child manage difficult topics such as bullying, grief, separation, sibling rivalry, failure, divorce, moving, or changing school environments.

We all want to protect our children from being hurt, feeling fear, or shame, but we can't. However, we can make space for the emotions that arise from traumatic moments, to stand with these difficult feelings of turmoil rather than running away from them.

In the pages of this book, you will read about:

• The function and reactions of a child's brain in everyday situations
• The concept of emotional bonding and how it affects our future relationships
• "Little traumas": situations that parents manage on a regular basis
• The tools that help in proper management (distraction-expression-reflection technique, play therapy, etc.)