ambivalence

This volume is designed to help children understand emotions, and shows that it is possible to experience two contrasting feelings at the same time, such as feeling both proud and scared on the first day of school. Questions are raised throughout the book to help them cope with the tugs and pulls of emotions that simultaneous and dissimilar feelings can produce. This second edition contains new illustrations.

Newly engaged, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is a prized catch in his tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, but as the plans for his wedding with his high school sweetheart, Rachel Gilbert, begin to close in around him, Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York and she unsettles Adam with her beauty and independence, showing him what freedom is all about.

Presents a variety of situations in which children might feel two emotions at the same time, and explains why it is natural to feel conflicting emotions.

Discusses how natural it is to feel contradictory emotions. Presents situations, such as the first day of school, the birth of a sibling, or a move to a new house, and identifies two emotions each event is likely to elicit.