Meet yourself! How to understand yourself, your parents, and friends

There are many books on developing emotional intelligence, but they hardly cover the elementary school age. This book by expert Victoria Shimanskaya fills that gap. Openly and in a trusting manner, you can discuss with your child topics such as empathy, self-acceptance, personal boundaries, fears, and grievances.
After age 7 — a special period. The child has started school: they need to adapt to the group, get used to daily classes, do homework, attend clubs and extracurricular activities. New fears and new experiences arise. Half of the day the child spends at school, and it seems that they are withdrawing, becoming incomprehensible, and then shouting, feeling hurt, and stomping their feet. What is happening to them? How can we help them? How to establish contact and not lose trust?
Victoria Shimanskaya — a doctor of psychology and an expert in emotional intelligence development — has prepared a book that will serve as a bridge between you and your growing child. In it, you will find stories about a girl named Emmy and an amazing robot Empi, who can read emotions. Together they find themselves in understandable and familiar situations: a failed performance at a competition, preparing for a test, being late for the theater, feeling hurt by loved ones, worries about appearance. Empi helps Emmy understand herself and her parents and the people around her. The heroes of these stories are not perfect; they, like all of us, make mistakes and do some things wrong, but they always find a way out of difficult situations.
We invite you to read the stories together with your child and discuss them. The chapters are short — reading and discussions will take literally 15 minutes a day. This will help you better tune into each other and become closer.
For parents of children aged 7 and older.