It’s not all about your kids’ feelings. Yours matter too

To raise emotionally healthy kids, parents must face and work through their own feelings. ChayTee/iStockphoto/Getty Images

If you’re a parent or guardian, you’ve heard about the importance of respecting your child’s feelings . Teaching our kids can help them work through the negative emotions they experience as they grow up.

But what about your feelings as a parent? Hilary Jacobs Hendel , a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist, and Dr. Juli Fraga , a psychologist and parenting educator, flip the script in their new book, “ Parents Have Feelings, Too .” Together, they teach parents how to face and move through their own emotions so they can raise emotionally healthy children.

“Emotions affect us every day and often get us into trouble, and they have huge repercus