In Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children (2010), Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick have drawn upon their decades of work with children and parents, as psychoanalysts and as family consultants, as well as their close consultation with teachers, pediatricians, and other caregivers and their own experience as parents, to create a straightforward book, accessible to nonclinicians yet clinically profound, on the developmental challenges and achievements shared by young children and their parents during the first six years of life.

On the surface (I will get to what is less obvious in a moment), and without question, this book is written for parents, preschool teachers, and caregivers of young children who wish to better understand their own