Synopsis
Provides strategies for handling feelings of shyness, embarassment, or nervousness in situations like public speaking and making new friends.
Nicole Peterson - Children's Literature
Do you know a child who is shy or doesn't feel like he/she belongs in a group of friends? This book is a non-threatening way for the child to learn how to act and react to many situations. The colorful pages with photographs and drawings accompany the real life stories of several children. The consultant to this book, Dr. Donna Pincus Ph.D., is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at Boston University. Each chapter will give ideas of how to deal with situations and feelings and show examples of how other children acted when they had similar feelings. Some situations included in this book are feeling different from others, feeling left out of the crowd, and not giving up. The last page contains a list of helpful books, web sites and addresses to help deal with children's feelings. Another book in the "I Can" series that gives children helpful information. 2002, Copper Beech Books,
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Children's Literature
Do you know a child who is shy or doesn't feel like he/she belongs in a group of friends? This book is a non-threatening way for the child to learn how to act and react to many situations. The colorful pages with photographs and drawings accompany the real life stories of several children. The consultant to this book, Dr. Donna Pincus Ph.D., is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at Boston University. Each chapter will give ideas of how to deal with situations and feelings and show examples of how other children acted when they had similar feelings. Some situations included in this book are feeling different from others, feeling left out of the crowd, and not giving up. The last page contains a list of helpful books, web sites and addresses to help deal with children's feelings. Another book in the "I Can" series that gives children helpful information. 2002, Copper Beech Books,— Nicole Peterson