Dr Nat & The Emps Parent Guide

Big Emotions at Home
A parent's guide to understanding emotions, with The Emps

Big emotions don't come with instructions. This guide is a good place to start.

You'll find out what emotions are, why they visit, and how children learn to name them. You'll meet The Emps, and see how to introduce them so your child is curious, not put on the spot. Then there's the KNACK Method, our family emotion code, with the words to use when an emotion is already big.

There are small, everyday ways to keep the Emps going, in games, at bedtime and on the walk home, without it becoming one more thing to do. And there's a page just for you, because you can't lend calm you haven't got.

Written by an Educational Psychologist. Free.