How to Let Your Children Be Upset

Now is a time when many parents are faced with talking about difficult issues with their children, including COVID-19, loss of income, family and marital stressors, illness, death, and limits to activities that we all used to love doing. An article from the New York Times entitled, How to Let Your Child Be Upset, discusses the important topic of leveling with your children and letting them experience emotions. The article presents a series of children’s books written by Anastasia Higginbotham called “Ordinary Terrible Things” that address uncomfortable issues that many families face and present caregivers with a child-friendly approach to guiding conversations with young ones about those issues. The books present language that is neither under nor over-emotional, meeting children on their level while discussing the reality of emotional situations that they may be facing now and that they surely will need to learn to face in the future. The books can be beneficial for children of many ages. Take a look at the article and see if this book series might be something of interest and value to you and your family.