Feelings Are Not The Problem: How to help children learn to manage ALL their emotions

We love our children so deeply and what we want most is for them to be happy. So when they share difficult or uncomfortable feelings, our typical knee-jerk reaction is to try to change their feelings by minimizing or talking them out of their emotions: "Don't say you're stupid! You are the smartest kid I know." Read on for how to learn to tolerate your child’s difficult feelings and help them cope with and express them in healthy ways.