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Help your child learn how to make friends and how to be a friendThis gentle book about friendship for kids builds essential social skills such as empathy, kindness, sharing, listening and inclusion. Key points:¿ Bright watercolor illustrations portray different friendship situations. exploring how to make friends and how to be a friend together with a focus on being a friend to yourself and fostering positive self-esteem.¿ A valuable aid for discussing children's feelings and social world. The book is an ideal tool for connecting with children at storytime and chatting about their emotions, relationships and their day-to-day lives.¿ Includes lots of practical examples of how kids might manage their relationships with friends.¿ 7 friends activity pages to help children think more about friendship.Especially recommended for ages 3 to 8.

Help your child to manage their worries with this interactive bookGrowing up brings new experiences and uncertainties, and anxiety in childhood is common. The book enables you to support 4-10 year olds with worries by gently helping them to explore their emotions and learn techniques to manage their feelings.Provides children with tools for managing anxiety on an everyday basisCo-written by a child educational psychologist, the book caters for children experiencing anxiety at any level and can be equally used by parents/ carers, teachers or other professionals. The ideas included are underpinned by evidence-based approaches, including application of cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness.Fosters greater awareness of emotions (self-awareness)Children learn that worry is a normal human emotion, and that they can listen to their bodies and recognize bodily cues of anxiety. It helps to teach and practice emotional vocabulary, encourages expression of emotions and promotes self-awareness.Practical evidence-based techniques to manage worries (self-regulation)From mindfulness exercises, talking to trusted adults, making a worry jar to practising brave behaviour, the book shares lots of ideas and fun activities that children, supported by adults, can use to start to learn to manage their worries.

Help your child become a compassionate and caring individualEmpathy starts when we begin to understand and notice how others are feeling. This book helps children to think about what kindness is and why it's so important to be kind to others.Practical examples of kindness at school, home, in the community, with animals, the environment... and with yourself!From simple acts of kindness like sharing toys to more significant gestures like standing up for a friend, the book illustrates responsibility, sharing, compassion, inclusion and integrity, and shows children how they can be kind every day.Includes four activities pagesSit with your child and talk through kindness activities to help them reach a deeper understanding of what it means to be kind. Try the kindness counter, learn to be kind to yourself and take on the challenge of becoming a kindness superhero!Especially recommended for ages 3 to 8