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Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens

Practical Parenting Pivots for Everyday Moments and a Lifetime of Growth

Contributors

By Tamar E. Chansky, PhD

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Dec 8, 2026
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
Balance
ISBN-13
9780306836978

Price

$19.99

Price

$25.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $19.99 $25.99 CAD
  2. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99

Kids today are growing up in a time of emotional overload: anxiety, stress, sadness, loss, and rapid change. Many parents feel unprepared, rushing to solutions, and inadvertently minimize their child’s feelings. It seems we all want to know how we can best help manage our child’s emotions—as well as our own—in today’s chaotic world.
 
Enter Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens, a compassionate and practical guidebook for managing emotions. Instead of shielding our kids from difficult topics, parents will learn simple, science-backed strategies for guiding kids through their feelings. With Dr. Tamar Chansky’s practical “Seven Shifts,” kids will learn how to navigate the two parts of any emotion—first to sit and feel, and then to solve and heal. Whether with anxiety, anger, grief, sadness, trauma, kids will learn emotional resilience skills that will serve them for a lifetime.
 
Emotional Navigation for Kids and Teens shares a roadmap to guide your child through just about every possible emotional turmoil scenario. This reassuring, empathetic, practical guide…
 
  • Covers the full span of kids’ emotional challenges and experiences
  • Takes a deep dive into one emotion at a time
  • Provides creative, memorable, and easy interventions
  • Offers skills and strategies to navigate academic pressure, social stress, and real-life fears such as climate change, gun violence.
  • Includes specific scripts and exercises for toddlers to teens…and more
 
Raising emotionally equipped kids is what every parent wants. This accessible guide provides parents with tools to help their kids navigate everyday ups and downs so they can grow toward independence and thrive emotionally, developmentally, and socially.

 


Tamar E. Chansky, PhD

About the Author

Tamar E. Chansky, PhD, is a psychologist and author of four popular books, including Freeing Yourself from Anxiety, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking, Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, and Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Dr. Chansky is passionate about helping kids, parents and other adults pursue the lives that they want to lead, free from the obstacles of anxiety, pessimism and OCD. Dr. Chansky is the founder of The Children’s and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and of the educational website: worrywisekids.org. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband.

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