#MMBBR #Review Jilly's Terrible Temper Tantrums: And How She Outgrew Them by @MHPieperPhD #SmartLovePress

When Jilly, a happy little kangaroo, has a series of Terrible Temper Tantrums, her parents lovingly help her through them. Children will be very familiar with the frustrations that trigger Jilly's upset feelings, and will applaud her dawning understanding that seeking help and a hug is far superior to the misery of a temper tantrum.

If your child is having temper tantrums, try to make yourself more available, not less available." – Martha Heineman Pieper

A wonderful and beautifully illustrated story about something we all have faced....temper tantrums!  Jilly seems to have melts downs quite a bit but slowly over time she learns how to manager her emotions better.  This is a great book to help ease children when they have an instant reaction that leads to a temper tantrum.  This book can work as a aid to talking to children about temper tantrums and helping build dialogue and communication to help work through the emotions that cause the melt downs in the first place.  A great book for kids and parents alike.     

Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., is an author and psychotherapist who works with children and parents and serves as a consultant to family services agencies and other mental health professionals. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Radcliffe College, she earned her doctorate in Clinical Social Work at the University of Chicago. With her late husband, William J. Pieper, M.D., she wrote the bestselling parenting book "Smart Love: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Regulating, and Enjoying Your Child" as well as the bestselling adult self-help book "Addicted to Unhappiness."

In 2012, Pieper released her first children's book based on Smart Love principles, "Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream!" The book entertains children while it shows them how to understand and master their bad dreams. It also provides parents with loving and effective strategies for responding to children who wake them in the night with bad dreams. "Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream!" won the 2012 Bronze IPPY Award for Children's Picture Books, the 2012 Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award for Storybooks, the Ben Franklin first prize for Children's Picture Books from the Independent Book Publishers Association, Creative Child Magazine's 2012 Book of the Year, and a Mom's Choice Gold Award for Excellence. It also made the Indie Next List, was an Award-Winning Finalist in the Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction Category of the 2012 International Book Awards, won Best Book in two categories (Children's Picture Book and Children's Mind/Body/Spirit) of the 2012 USA Book News Awards, was named Best Children's Book of 2012 by Sharp Writ Awards, and was a finalist in the 2012 Foreword Book of the Year Awards in the Children's Picture Book Category.

Coming in 2017! The sequel, Jilly's Terrible Temper Tantrums: And How She Outgrew Them.

Martha Heineman Pieper’s professional experience and path-breaking research into the causes and effects of children’s inner happiness or unhappiness form the guiding principle for Smart Love Family Services, a not-for-profit agency in Chicago that provides psychotherapy services, parent education, and toddler and preschool programs.

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