A Picture Book is Worth a Thousand Words 2013 AFCC Parents Forum
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Transcript of A Picture Book is Worth a Thousand Words 2013 AFCC Parents Forum
WHY THE FOCUS ON SELF-ESTEEM?
• Improves school performance
• Affects child’s approach to new
challenge
• Impacts how child interacts with
others
• Increases self-respect and self- confidence
• Improves school performance
• Mastering tasks and skills
• Valuing your own strengths and qualities
• Feeling appreciated, loved and accepted
• Being able to express feelings and emotions
• Acknowledging and coping with fears
• Accepting and liking your body and yourself
WHAT BUILDSSELF-ESTEEM?
IS TO SPEND TIME READING PICTURE BOOKS
WITH YOUR CHILD
ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO HELP BUILD SELF-ESTEEM
WHY USE PICTURE BOOKS?
• Young children love to listen to them
• Parent has opportunity to sit with child
• Atmosphere is relaxed
• Parent-child time helps child feel worthy
• Child relates his life to the events in the story
• Child learns his concerns are shared by others
• Main character has same problem or challenge
• Consult best book lists
• Many internet resources available
• Children’s librarians can help
WHICHBOOKS CAN YOU USE?
• Peter wants to learn how to whistle
• Mastering tasks and skills
• Peter’s parents love him and encourage him
• Child learns to ‘try, try again’
WHISTLE FOR WILLIE By Ezra Jack Keats
• Three friends make fun of each
other
• Valuing one’s own strengths and qualities
• Great book with anti-bullying
theme
• Child learns that respecting friends is more fun
YES WE CAN!By Sam McBratney
• Feeling appreciated, loved and accepted
• Child learns he can be loved for who he is
• Child learns to reach out and
help others
PRINCE BEAR & PAUPERBEARBy Emily Lim
WHERE THE WILDTHINGS AREBy Maurice Sendak
• All children misbehave at one
time or another
• Expressing one’s feelings and emotions
• Child learns a parent’s love is unconditional
THE INCH-HIGH SAMURAIBy Shiro Kasamatsu(translated by Ralph F. McCarthy)
• Child learns body type has nothing to do with self-worth