Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns & Defiance - Alyssa Blask-Campbell

About this episode

Alyssa Blask Campbell discusses navigating children's big emotions and her new book on emotional intelligence.

Small humans can have some BIG emotions! How do we navigate tantrums, meltdowns, and defiance and actually raise emotionally intelligent kids? Alyssa Blask Campbell returns to the Mindful Mama Podcast to discuss her new book, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions. If you enjoyed this episode, and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram stories, and tag me @mindfulmamamentor. Have you left a review yet? All you have to do is go to ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or ⁠ Stitcher⁠ (or wherever you listen), and thanks for your support of the show! Alyssa Blask Campbell is a thought-leader and expert in emotional development. She is deeply passionate about building emotional intelligence in children and co-created the Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method. Her book, TINY HUMANS, BIG EMOTIONS, will be available Fall 2023 from HarperCollins. Follow @seed.and.sew. Get Hunter's best selling book, Raising Good Humans now! Over 200,000 copies sold! ⁠Click here to order and get book bonuses!⁠ And now Hunter's newly released book, Raising Good Humans Every Day, is available to order! ⁠Click…

People in this episode

Host: Hunter Clarke-Fields

Guest: Alyssa Blask Campbell

Topics covered

• tantrums
• emotional intelligence
• parenting strategies
• child development
• defiance

Keywords

• tantrums
• meltdowns
• defiance
• emotional intelligence
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HarperCollins

Products: Raising Good Humans, Raising Good Humans Every Day

Books & works: Tiny Humans, Big Emotions

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