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While growing up has never been easy, today’s world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, cites Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Healy, who was a “wild child” — the kind, she writes, who left babysitters “wondering if they wanted children” — knows her subject. She has become an expert on teaching skills that address the high sensitivity, big emotions, and hyper energy she herself experienced. Three simple steps are key — Stop, Calm, and Make a Smart Choice. 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 stomach aches, or hurting themselves or others, to recognizing they are being triggered, feeling their emotions, and using strategies such as exercise, journaling, and talking to supportive friends or family to respond from their calm center. This center is where good choices come from. As parents learn to model these skills, both parents and children become freer to do and be their best.

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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. -- Booklist Maureen Healy provides simple yet life-changing tools to raise more mindful children. -- Dr. Saamdu Chetri, former director of Gross National Happiness for Bhutan At last, a brilliant road map of what emotional health in children is, along with amazingly accessible tools of emotional coaching to help them get there. Generously filled with real-life examples and learning scenarios any parent, teacher, or coach can relate to, plus exercises to teach the necessary skills, this book is a real gift. -- Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being The Emotionally Healthy Child provides practical advice that is both accessible and potentially transformative -- for the child, the parent, and their relationship. Read it, read it again, and then, more importantly, apply it. -- Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment The Emotionally Healthy Child can help any adult who wants to raise healthier and ultimately happier children in today's world. -- Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World The Emotionally Healthy Child is a wonderful addition to the growing library of resources for parents and educators about the critical importance of understanding what emotional health looks like in the young. Maureen Healy provides us with clear and simple strategies to help children 'use the dirt of their daily experiences and steer toward the lotus of their lives.' In doing so, she provides a manual for 'progress without perfection.' A real gift. -- Claire Kelly, director of Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

I hope Maureen Healy's book The Emotionally Healthy Child will contribute to a more wholesome education for future generations. -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama 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. -- Booklist Maureen Healy provides simple yet life-changing tools to raise more mindful children. -- Dr. Saamdu Chetri, former director of Gross National Happiness for Bhutan At last, a brilliant road map of what emotional health in children is, along with amazingly accessible tools of emotional coaching to help them get there. Generously filled with real-life examples and learning scenarios any parent, teacher, or coach can relate to, plus exercises to teach the necessary skills, this book is a real gift. -- Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being The Emotionally Healthy Child provides practical advice that is both accessible and potentially transformative -- for the child, the parent, and their relationship. Read it, read it again, and then, more importantly, apply it. -- Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment The Emotionally Healthy Child can help any adult who wants to raise healthier and ultimately happier children in today's world. -- Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World The Emotionally Healthy Child is a wonderful addition to the growing library of resources for parents and educators about the critical importance of understanding what emotional health looks like in the young. Maureen Healy provides us with clear and simple strategies to help children 'use the dirt of their daily experiences and steer toward the lotus of their lives.' In doing so, she provides a manual for 'progress without perfection.' A real gift. -- Claire Kelly, director of Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

Praise for the books of Maureen Healy Maureen Healy wisely leads parents and caregivers into the heart of awakening and activating the innate confidence with which every child is born. --Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning Growing Happy Kids gives parents what we all long for: a simple five-step plan to help nurture their children's self-confidence so they can handle whatever comes up smoothly. --Dr. Edward Hallowell, author of The Childhood Roots of Happiness Maureen Healy offers wise and practical strategies for adults who hope to guide children toward a lifetime of confidence and true happiness. --Sharon Salzberg, author of True Happiness

I hope Maureen Healy's book The Emotionally Healthy Child will contribute to a more wholesome education for future generations. -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama 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. -- Booklist Maureen Healy provides simple yet life-changing tools to raise more mindful children. -- Dr. Saamdu Chetri, former director of Gross National Happiness for Bhutan At last, a brilliant road map of what emotional health in children is, along with amazingly accessible tools of emotional coaching to help them get there. Generously filled with real-life examples and learning scenarios any parent, teacher, or coach can relate to, plus exercises to teach the necessary skills, this book is a real gift. -- Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being Full of interesting stories and ready-to-use parenting tools, The Emotionally Healthy Child is one parenting book worth picking up in 2019. -- San Francisco Book Review, 5 Star Review The Emotionally Healthy Child provides practical advice that is both accessible and potentially transformative -- for the child, the parent, and their relationship. Read it, read it again, and then, more importantly, apply it. -- Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment The Emotionally Healthy Child can help any adult who wants to raise healthier and ultimately happier children in today's world. -- Michele Borba, EdD, author of UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World The Emotionally Healthy Child is a wonderful addition to the growing library of resources for parents and educators about the critical importance of understanding what emotional health looks like in the young. Maureen Healy provides us with clear and simple strategies to help children 'use the dirt of their daily experiences and steer toward the lotus of their lives.' In doing so, she provides a manual for 'progress without perfection.' A real gift. -- Claire Kelly, director of Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

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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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