Tears Heal: How to listen to our children

Discover parenting's biggest paradigm shift Tears heal. We all recognise that we feel better after a good cry, and now scientific research is showing that there are real physiological reasons why crying makes us feel happier and healthier. Yet no matter how comfortable we are with our own tears, we find our children's crying to be one of the most challenging aspects of parenting. When our baby cries or our toddler throws a tantrum we want them to stop as quickly as possible.
In this ground-breaking book, Kate Orson shows how, by listening to our child's tears, we can allow them to express their deepest hurts and struggles so that they don't need to demonstrate them through challenging behaviour. Full of practical advice and wise suggestions, Tears Heal will enable you to transform the natural tendency to stop or distract your crying child, and instead begin listening to what their tears really mean. It also highlights how our child's upsets and challenging moments can trigger unconscious memories of our own childhood hurts, and how we can work process those.
Allowing our children to fully express themselves through crying, and laughter too, will help to dissolve behaviour challenges and enable them to grow up happy and well-adjusted. And by discovering ways to nurture and support yourself, you can be the parent you want to be.