Husband and wife authors Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick will talk about their book, “Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children,” and share their experience, knowledge, and research on building emotional muscles for children. A book sale and signing will follow, courtesy of Nicola’s Books.

According to the Novicks, “Every child can develop emotional muscles, like trust and adaptability for babies, empathy and agency in one-year-olds, resilience and mastery in two-year-olds, assertion and persistence in three-year-olds, internal controls and realistic standards in four-year-olds, cooperation and competence in five-year-olds, and more. With these added strengths, a child will become a good friend to others, a responsible helper, a self-motivated learner, and be successful in meeting life’s challenges.”

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD, parents and grandparents themselves, have been working with children and families for over forty-five years. Psychoanalysts and psychologists, they bring their knowledge of development to parents, teachers, pediatricians, nurses, and the wider community. Kerry Kelly Novick is the daughter of the late actor/dancer Gene Kelly.