Creating Compassionate KidsCreating Compassionate Kids
Essential Conversations to Have With Young Children
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Book, 2019
Current format, Book, 2019, First edition, All copies in use.Book, 2019
Current format, Book, 2019, First edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsHelps parents and caregivers tackle tough topics like peer pressure, divorce and stress through age-appropriate sample conversations, discussion prompts and storybook recommendations to help teach their children self-esteem, resilience and empathy. Original.
Paraphrasing Maya Angelou: people may forget what you said or did, but they never forget how you make them feel. Professor Tominey emphasizes the importance of parents having conversations with their children. First, conversations build relationships. Second, they help children build important skills, like managing and expressing emotions, communicating their needs, being sensitive to other peoples’ feelings, and building friendships. Third, generally, teach how to navigate life’s highways and byways, how to approach others with compassion. You may not get an A for each communication, but what is important, is the trend of compassion that children will remember, the collective experience. The book includes conversations that focus on development empathy and practicing compassion. Each chapter offers ideas for specific conversation topics with examples, with children of different ages and stages of development. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for family activities, children’s book recommendations, and discussion questions that can help you and your child extend your conversations beyond this book. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be?Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate?As parents and caregivers of young children, we know what we want for our children, but not always how to get there. Many children today are stressed by academic demands, anxious about relationships at school, confused by messages they hear in the media, and overwhelmed by challenges at home. Young children look to the adults in their lives for everything. Sometimes we’re prepared... sometimes we’re not. In this book, Shauna Tominey guides parents and caregivers through how to have conversations with young children about a range of topics-from what makes us who we are (e.g., race, gender) to tackling challenges (e.g., peer pressure, divorce, stress) to showing compassion (e.g., making friends, recognizing privilege, being a helper). Talking through these topics in an age-appropriate manner—rather than telling children they are too young to understand—helps children recognize how they feel and how they fit in with the world around them. This book provides sample conversations, discussion prompts, storybook recommendations, and family activities. Dr. Tominey's research-based strategies and practical advice creates dialogues that teach self-esteem, resilience, and empathy: the building blocks for a more compassionate world.
Greater GoodYoung children can surprise us with tough questions. Tominey’s essential guide teaches us how to answer them and foster compassion along the way.
Paraphrasing Maya Angelou: people may forget what you said or did, but they never forget how you make them feel. Professor Tominey emphasizes the importance of parents having conversations with their children. First, conversations build relationships. Second, they help children build important skills, like managing and expressing emotions, communicating their needs, being sensitive to other peoples’ feelings, and building friendships. Third, generally, teach how to navigate life’s highways and byways, how to approach others with compassion. You may not get an A for each communication, but what is important, is the trend of compassion that children will remember, the collective experience. The book includes conversations that focus on development empathy and practicing compassion. Each chapter offers ideas for specific conversation topics with examples, with children of different ages and stages of development. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for family activities, children’s book recommendations, and discussion questions that can help you and your child extend your conversations beyond this book. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be?Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate?As parents and caregivers of young children, we know what we want for our children, but not always how to get there. Many children today are stressed by academic demands, anxious about relationships at school, confused by messages they hear in the media, and overwhelmed by challenges at home. Young children look to the adults in their lives for everything. Sometimes we’re prepared... sometimes we’re not. In this book, Shauna Tominey guides parents and caregivers through how to have conversations with young children about a range of topics-from what makes us who we are (e.g., race, gender) to tackling challenges (e.g., peer pressure, divorce, stress) to showing compassion (e.g., making friends, recognizing privilege, being a helper). Talking through these topics in an age-appropriate manner—rather than telling children they are too young to understand—helps children recognize how they feel and how they fit in with the world around them. This book provides sample conversations, discussion prompts, storybook recommendations, and family activities. Dr. Tominey's research-based strategies and practical advice creates dialogues that teach self-esteem, resilience, and empathy: the building blocks for a more compassionate world.
Greater GoodYoung children can surprise us with tough questions. Tominey’s essential guide teaches us how to answer them and foster compassion along the way.
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