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The Early Years Alliance has launched a new book providing practical guidance for adults on responding to young children’s emotions in a way that builds resilience. 

Emotion Coaching in the Early Years aims to impart the skills needed to create emotionally healthy environments and build emotional resilience. 

The book itself is split into nine chapters beginning with a theoretical overview before looking at the practical steps practitioners can take when working with children in the early years. The first half of the book introduces the key concepts of emotion coaching and provides easy-to-understand outline of how attachment and resilience are developed. The book concludes with a helpful breakdown, split across three chapters according to age groups from babies to four-year-olds, into how best to apply emotional coaching in your setting according to the age of the children involved. 

Effective emotion coaching helps children trust and be aware of their feelings and feel comfortable talking about them by learning to regulate big feelings and solve problems. The book provides a practical guide for practitioners that sets out how to help children develop high self-esteem, form strong relationships and become achievers who are not afraid of making mistakes. 

Helen Moylett, an early years consultant, in the book’s foreword, said:  

“This book is a small treasury of interesting ideas, theories and activities about some of the most fundamental aspects of human life and happiness. Exploring some of the highly complex emotional and social relationships that early years practitioners negotiate and support every day, it will help practitioners to support children to recognise the feelings they have, as well as understand that all emotions are valid but that interacting successfully with others requires us to find ways of regulating them and controlling our impulses. Reading this book and building on its wisdom is to invest in a better future for all of us.” 

The book’s author, Stephanie Mathivet, said:  

“Emotions are an important part of being human and need to be acknowledged and nurtured as much as any other human faculties, such as cognitive or physical abilities. Being an emotion coach means helping children to develop secure attachments that promote their resilience when away from home; helping two-year-olds’ with big feelings as they begin to learn to manage them for themselves, and building on three- and four-year-olds’ increasing ability to express themselves verbally.” 

Emotion Coaching in the Early Years is available for Alliance members: £14.95 and to non-members for £22.95. A special 20% discount is available for purchases from the Alliance shop made by 31 January. 

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How to order

Order online: ; or call or email 0300 330 0996 or shop@eyalliance.org.uk.  

About the Alliance

• The Early Years Alliance is the largest and most representative early years membership organisation in England. A registered educational charity, it also provides high-quality affordable childcare and education to support children and families in areas of deprivation throughout the country.
• The Alliance represents 14,000 members and supports them to deliver care and learning to more than 800,000 families every year. We deliver family learning projects, offer information and advice, produce specialist publications, run acclaimed training programmes and campaign to influence early years policy and practice.
• The Alliance website is