How to help our children manage their emotions around the climate crisis. It’s a hot topic. Helping our children manage those big feelings can be tricky. It’s hard enough for adults. Navigating these moments in parenting can feel a lot like stumbling in the dark. When I can’t find the words myself, I turn to books. Both for myself and my child. There are books galore on climate science, but hardly any on how to support our children’s emotional response around inheriting a cli

Lucy Black reviews five new picture books that explore ideas of people and place. Join Aroha, Flit, Polly, two boisterous boys and the girls in the kapa haka as they each in their own way show what it is to be a kid in Aotearoa these days. Aroha’s Way by Craig Phillips (Wildling Books) Books about emotions and how to deal with them are some of my favourite kids' books. I remember being young and reading Aldo by John Burningham, the bittersweet sadness and evocative painted il