Tuesday Book Review

I Love these books and so does Emma!!

This is only four of the books in a huge series of about 14 books. All extremely well written. They are the perfect beginning tool to help your young toddler and school aged child with wonderful social skills.

I do hope it's OK to quote what Dr Stephen R Covey had to say about these books "Children and adults will love these gentle, empowering books. The Learning to Get Along series is a powerful tool for teaching children essential social skills such as empathy, respect, cooperation, and kindness. This straightforward and insightful series helps children visualize how their appropriate behavior positively impacts themselves and others. I heartily recommend this as a solid, classic resource for teaching affective skills to young children."

I know my little Emma is still very young and that some of this may be very overwhelming for her. But I don't underestimate her intelligence and feel that starting on these social skills sooner rather than later is so much better all around. She loves looking over the pages and expressing the words she knows as I read them to her. I give her the opportunity to say please and thank you when the book does and we talk about what's going on in the pictures. It's great because now when we are out and about be it the playground or the department store I can use words expressed in the books to reminder her how to behave and it works! On the playground to share and take turns going down the slides, and that you don't touch other people's things when we are in public and that she needs to respect what is theirs and it's private and meant for only them.

The series covers all kinds of challenges you may encounter with your little one, we already own the 4 books above and are looking to get "Be Careful and Stay Safe" so Emma will understand why she needs to hold our hands when crossing the street and in parking lots. I can't believe how much she has already picked up from us reading these books even at 17 months of age, children are like little sponges ready to learn. What's best is that in the back of each book are ideas on ways reinforce what the book is teaching on each page and games to play, of course this is for when Emma is much older, but it's good to know that these books will have loads of value for years to come. Another must for the personal library of a parent that wants to discipline in a fun and positive way!