Raise Happy Children: What Evolution Tells You About Your Child's Emotions

Why do tantrums peak at two? Why does your teenager go silent? Why does a five-year-old need to ask "why?" four hundred times a day?

Because every one of those behaviours is ancient equipment, doing exactly what it was designed to do — in a world it was never designed for.

Your child is not broken. Your child is not manipulating you. Your child is running a set of emotional instincts that were shaped, over hundreds of thousands of years, to keep a small human alive on the African savannah. Every tantrum, every fear, every bewildering mood is a tool — and you were just never handed the manual.

This book is the manual.

A *Designed to Feel* companion. For readers of *The Whole-Brain Child*, *Hunt, Gather, Parent*, and *Why We Sleep*.