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When Your Child Cries Easily: 10 Quick Friendship Tips to Help Kids Who Often Cry in Front of Peers : Dr. Friendtastic’s Mini-Guide for Parents
Some children are tender-hearted and easily become overwhelmed by their feelings. But when children frequently cry in public, it can hurt their friendships and may even make them the target of bullying.
When Your Child Cries Easily
gives you ten practical tips to use immediately and in the longer term to help when your child is prone to tears.
In this Mini-Guide for Parents, you'll learn strategies to help your
- Cope with big feelings during stressful moments rather than shutting down or becoming flooded by emotion,
- Plan ahead to manage difficult situations that tend to trigger tears for your child (but not for other kids), by learning to problem solve and communicate effectively
- Shift the focus away from dwelling on what's wrong toward seeing possibilities and becoming more open to trying, learning, enjoying, and playing with others.
Mini-Guides for Parents, by Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore & Christine McLaughlin, are short e-books that offer busy parents quick, useful, and targeted help for dealing with common children's friendship problems.
Almost every child struggles with friendships in some way, at some time. Although friendship problems are common, they can be very painful, and parents often feel helpless when they see their children struggling with a friendship rough spot.
The good news is that there are ways you can coach your child through friendship difficulties. In each mini-guide you'll find 10 quick tips to help your child immediately and longer term. You'll learn ways
- Support your child emotionally and practically,
- Guide your child in dealing with challenging situations with peers, and
- Help your child learn important skills for coping with feelings and building healthy friendships.
Dr. Kennedy-Moore is a clinical psychologist, based in Princeton, NJ, who has helped over a thousand families. As a trusted expert on parenting and child development, she has appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan and Good Day Philadelphia, and she is frequently quoted in major media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune. She is a professor for The Great Courses / Wondrium, and her blog, Growing Friendships on Psychology Today, has over 4.5 million views.
Read all of the Mini-Guides for Parents so you're ready to help your child navigate friendship challenges. And check out the authors' funny and useful book for children ages 6-12, Growing A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends .
In this Mini-Guide for Parents, you'll learn strategies to help your
- Cope with big feelings during stressful moments rather than shutting down or becoming flooded by emotion,
- Plan ahead to manage difficult situations that tend to trigger tears for your child (but not for other kids), by learning to problem solve and communicate effectively
- Shift the focus away from dwelling on what's wrong toward seeing possibilities and becoming more open to trying, learning, enjoying, and playing with others.
Mini-Guides for Parents, by Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore & Christine McLaughlin, are short e-books that offer busy parents quick, useful, and targeted help for dealing with common children's friendship problems.
Almost every child struggles with friendships in some way, at some time. Although friendship problems are common, they can be very painful, and parents often feel helpless when they see their children struggling with a friendship rough spot.
The good news is that there are ways you can coach your child through friendship difficulties. In each mini-guide you'll find 10 quick tips to help your child immediately and longer term. You'll learn ways
- Support your child emotionally and practically,
- Guide your child in dealing with challenging situations with peers, and
- Help your child learn important skills for coping with feelings and building healthy friendships.
Dr. Kennedy-Moore is a clinical psychologist, based in Princeton, NJ, who has helped over a thousand families. As a trusted expert on parenting and child development, she has appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan and Good Day Philadelphia, and she is frequently quoted in major media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune. She is a professor for The Great Courses / Wondrium, and her blog, Growing Friendships on Psychology Today, has over 4.5 million views.
Read all of the Mini-Guides for Parents so you're ready to help your child navigate friendship challenges. And check out the authors' funny and useful book for children ages 6-12, Growing A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends .
31 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2022
About the author
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
16 books42 followersEileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, aka "Dr. Friendtastic," is an author, psychologist, and speaker, who specializes in parenting and children’s feelings and friendships. Her most recent books for children are
Moody Moody Cars
and
Growing Friendships: A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends
. She has also written or co-authored four books for parents:
Kid Confidence
,
Smart Parenting for Smart Kids
,
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
, and
What’s My Child Thinking?
Dr. Kennedy-Moore's podcast, Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic, features 5-minute episodes answering children's questions about friendship. Her blog, Growing Friendships on Psychology Today has over 4.8 million views.
As a trusted expert on parenting and child development, Dr. Kennedy-Moore has been a featured guest on Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, Good Day Philadelphia, and dozens of radio shows and podcasts. She has been quoted many times in major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune Parents, Real Simple, Working Mother, and, Woman's Day.
Dr. Kennedy-Moore has a private practice in Princeton, NJ (lic. #35SI00425400), where she works with adults, children, and families, and she often presents at schools, corporations, and conferences. She and her husband have four grown children.
Learn more at EileenKennedyMoore.com or DrFriendtastic.com (for kids).
Dr. Kennedy-Moore's podcast, Kids Ask Dr. Friendtastic, features 5-minute episodes answering children's questions about friendship. Her blog, Growing Friendships on Psychology Today has over 4.8 million views.
As a trusted expert on parenting and child development, Dr. Kennedy-Moore has been a featured guest on Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, Good Day Philadelphia, and dozens of radio shows and podcasts. She has been quoted many times in major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune Parents, Real Simple, Working Mother, and, Woman's Day.
Dr. Kennedy-Moore has a private practice in Princeton, NJ (lic. #35SI00425400), where she works with adults, children, and families, and she often presents at schools, corporations, and conferences. She and her husband have four grown children.
Learn more at EileenKennedyMoore.com or DrFriendtastic.com (for kids).
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