The difficult emotions expressed by preschool and school-age children such as loneliness, pain, fear, sadness, grief, disappointment, anger, stubbornness, and frustration require discretion, sensitivity, imagination, and knowledge from adult caregivers in their management! The six stories offer the reader innovative, contemporary, and effective practices for dealing with them. In these short stories, we deal with problems that children and their caregivers, parents and educators, face daily, who are called upon to help them overcome them.

The scientific background and techniques of each story are based on the works of:
Dr. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD (2011) The Whole Brain Child, Delacorte Press, New York. Creative Translation-Editing: Brace Social Coop and Thomas Gordon (2009) The Secrets of Effective Parenting.

The stories with techniques are:
- Her friends don't play with her during recess. Emotions come and go.
- She fails the math test. The wheel of awareness.
- She didn't perform her poem well at the school celebration. Self-talk.
- She shouts in the Super Market to buy her something. Vertical boundaries, clear communication, enforcement of consistency.
- She doesn't want to eat her food. Engage, don't enrage: address the upper brain.
- She is afraid to sleep. Change the images.