Determine your meta-emotion style What are your emotions about emotions? One particularly insightful test can be found in John Gottman’s book Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting. Another, more technical book is Volume 4 of the Handbook of Child Psychology. Look in the chapter titled “Socialization in the Context of the Family: Parent-Child Interaction,” by E. E. Maccoby and J. A. Martin.
