Description
To go along with this volume there is 8 Children’s books also Children’s Book Series- Like a Duck
This is Volume four of the Adult series but this volume goes alongside the Like A Duck Children’s series hand in hand. Vol 1,2,4 and 5 of the adult series would not complete this scheme this volume is stand alone as such for emotional literacy and lessons with Children with an adult to lead.
Overview
What better way to give children a voice than through lived experiences. I am not a professional and I do no have all the answers and I still struggle some days now. However I experienced hard moments. Saw or heard things beyond my years and not speaking out or even knowing that was an option meant I had to relive it and deal with it many years later. This has hurt me deeply. Holding on to things or feeling others will judge or you do not have the words needs to change for the younger generation. Asking for help for yourselves or others. Admitting that life is hard and is not always perfect. Knowing that mental health ie an illness not a flaw or weakness and it impacts others around you- needs to be taught and discussed.
Children often carry adult worries. Between family stress, big feelings, and everyday pressures, they quietly take things in, somethings were never meant for them. The world is changing, so our way to talk about issues and mental health needs to change too. Things are becoming harder. The world is sometimes too busy to fully listen or children do not have the words to explain their feelings or know when to share and when to and with who.
I wrote The Waterproof Mind because children deserve simple, safe ways to let stress roll right off their backs and to understand why to ask for help and how to help themselves.
People can always help but you yourself need to deal with your own feelings and children as well as adults need to learn how to regulate and how to share. How to ask for help and why.
It is a gentle, practical toolkit filled with powerful animal metaphors, like a duck’s natural preen gland, that teaches children how to scale their worries, protect their peace, and hand adult-sized problems back to the adults who they belong to them.
It teaches resilience, emotional literacy and tries to open a door to communication and feelings.
It builds character and understanding!
Seven lesson ideas and key sayings and take aways.
Weather, clouds, 20 degrees and 340, V Formation, Preen Gland, Ducks and more !..
Quotes–
’Feelings are visitors. They come. They stay for a while. Then they move on. I do not have to stay stuck in one kind of weather.’
’Children should never be expected to carry adult-sized worries. They need trusted adults, practical tools and simple ways of understanding their emotions.’
’A Waterproof Mind is not about never feeling worried. It is about knowing that help, hope and support are always available.’
’Strong people ask for help. Strong people help others. We all fly better together.’
Giving Myself My Voice Back! Is part of a collection (Vol 4 for teachers and intervention leaders)
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