Emotional development experts Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed. and Lauren Stauble M.S. are at the forefront of a movement to foster little ones' emotional intelligence. Their revolutionary Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method has been a game changer for parents and educators, and now they are sharing it with readers in this indispensable guide.

Part I :What are emotions and why do they matter? : What is emotional intelligence? -- Your role in your child's emotions -- What's happening in the brain and the body when you have big emotions? -- The collaborative emotion processing method -- Part II : Collaborative emotion processing with tiny humans : -- What to do in the moment -- How to set and hold boundaries -- When and how to talk about the behavior -- Consequences, punishments, and rewards -- Ending meltdowns before they start -- When there's more than one child -- Part III : CEPing it up a level : Developing empathy -- Changes and transitions -- The future is emotionally intelligent.