Connecting with Kids Through Stories

Connecting with Kids Through Stories
Author: Denise B. Lacher
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1849058695

This is an accessible guide to using therapeutic stories to help connect with troubled adopted children. It demonstrates how parents and professionals can create their own stories to help children heal, and explains the theory behind the therapy. This second edition includes updated research and full sample stories.

Connecting Kids

Connecting Kids
Author: Sharon Turton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2009
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 9780980684209

Through the themes of connection, love, trust, self-esteem, kindness and stillness, this book aims to help you nurture a deep connection with your children, guiding them to healthily connect to their own inner greatness and love. Isn't it true that our children are born with unlimited potential? And isn't it true that as parents we wish for them to live this to the fullest? This shining potential is always there, yet it often gets masked by painful childhood experiences that can leave children feeling insecure, scared, angry and confused, adversely shaping the rest of their lives. The interactive stories, meditations and activities in this book will help your child to express and release unhealthy blocks and limiting beliefs, and guide them manoeuvre through childhood with grace and joy and ultimately grow to their fullest potential. Illustrated by Cazzie Pitsis, the author of 'An Angel in My Heart'. Foreward by Brandon Bays.

Connecting with Kids Through Stories

Connecting with Kids Through Stories
Author: Melissa Nichols
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0857004549

Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others. This book outlines how therapeutic stories can help children to heal and develop healthy attachments. With a thorough theoretical grounding, the book demonstrates how to create therapeutic stories that improve relationships, heal past trauma, and change problem behaviour. The story of a fictional family that develops its own narratives to help their adopted child heal illustrates the techniques. This second edition includes updated research on attachment, trauma and the developmental process; a new chapter on parental attunement and regulation; and a new chapter with full length samples of a variety of narrative types. The gentle and non-intrusive techniques in this book will be highly beneficial for children with attachment difficulties. This guide will be an invaluable resource for parents of adopted children and the professionals working with them.

52 Creative Ways to Connect With Your Kids

52 Creative Ways to Connect With Your Kids
Author: Cyndi Harvell
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre:
ISBN:

This book is an inspiring, feel-good collection of 52 stories from parents all over the world about their favorite ways to connect and engage with their kids. For the parent looking for new ways to engage with their kids (or simply looking to be reminded of why those connections are so essential), this compilation will spark your curiosity, warm your heart, and strengthen your family bonds. How did this book come to be?In 2017, Cyndi filmed a video of her husband, Bronkar, beatboxing to their son, Elijah. (He was 18 months at the time.) Elijah danced and laughed with joy, using both sign language and spoken words to request, "More! More! More!" every time Bronkar paused. Cyndi shared the video to her Facebook page, and within a few days, it was re-shared through several major news outlets, becoming an "accidental" viral video with over 250 million views. Cyndi was deeply inspired by how strongly parents across the globe resonated with the simple joy of a parent and child engaging with each other through music and laughter. She and Bronkar began to invite stories from other parents. Each story was a seed planted, and together they sprouted into this glorious collection.

How to Tell Stories to Children

How to Tell Stories to Children
Author: Joseph Sarosy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0358449278

What you hold in your hands is not a collection of stories. It is a simple, yet revolutionary method to create your own.

Connecting with Kids through Stories

Connecting with Kids through Stories
Author: Todd Nichols
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2005-01-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 184642108X

Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach. Through many years' therapeutic work with adopted children and their families, the Family Attachment Center of Minnesota has developed an exciting and innovative technique which uses stories as the main mode for helping parents to communicate and connect with their troubled children. Connecting with Kids through Stories is an accessible guide to Family Attachment Narrative Therapy for the parents of adopted or fostered children, and for the professionals who work with them. Providing a thorough theoretical grounding, and detailed information on therapeutic techniques and how to assess progress, the book shows parents how to create their own therapeutic stories to promote increased attachment and improved behavior in their child. The authors describe how different kinds of narratives can help with specific difficulties and illustrate their techniques with the story of a fictional family who develop their own narratives to help their adopted child heal. The Family Attachment and Counseling Center of Minnesota works to promote the growth and healthy functioning of individuals and families through professional guidance, with a particular emphasis on services for children. The Center's Family Attachment Narrative Therapy program has been especially developed to help children whose development has been compromised by early life trauma and attachment relationship difficulties.

Inspirational Stories for Kids

Inspirational Stories for Kids
Author: John Scrooge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre:
ISBN:

Fairy Tales are essential stories for childhood. These stories are quite just happily ever after, they portray real moral lessons thru characters and virtue shown within the stories. they are doing not only captivate the imagination of young minds, but also enhances their creativity and reasoning skills. a toddler learns tons by simply taking note of these amazing stories. It also creates a special parent-child bond, when parents read stories to their children.Fairy tales may bring children to a fantasy land but as they grow, the moral truths of those stories remain in their hearts and minds.Not all parents believe the importance of fairy tales for teenagers . But studies show that fairy tales bring significant positive leads to the event of a young mind.Fairy Tales also are fun and may cause many benefits to your children; here are a couple of of them:1. Early Literacy Development"If you would like your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you would like them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." ― Einstein Storytelling plays a crucial role in Early Literacy development. It acts as an important building block to literacy. Children's imaginations are further enhanced through taking note of fairy tales. you'll engage children to debate how the fantasy land or amazing worlds from these stories are often different or an equivalent from our world . Through such interaction together with your children, it'll help them express their ideas easily.Studies also show that regular storytelling activities can help broaden a child's vocabulary.2. Positive Problem Solving SkillsChildren learn from the characters within the stories and this helps them connect things with their own lives. The stories show children the way to have a positive outlook amidst any anxieties, battles and problems in life. It also teaches them critical thinking skills.3. Building Resilience in ChildrenThe world today are often seen as frightening place. Many families and most specifically children can undergo tremendous stress. In such situation, children got to remember that bad things happen to everyone. Fairy tales can help them develop emotional resiliency by helping them connect the stories to real world issues where most of the time the hero triumphs. These stories show them that we all undergo life challenges which they need to always be prepared and believe that they will achieve life.4. Cultural LiteracyReading Fairy tales to children or storytelling isn't only a foundation to literacy development but also give emphasis to varied cross cultural values and behaviors.5. Fairy Tales teaches the essential of a StoryFairy Tales are great tools for teaching kids about story development, conflict resolution, the event of characters, heroes and villains and easily broadening their imagination. Furthermore, it helps them differentiate fiction to non-fiction stories.Whilst often forgotten, story tales should be considered as timeless. As parents and teachers it's an honest idea to research ways you'll introduce this genre to children and permit them to enjoy the stories you, your parents, grandparents then on, have maintained as a part of the story telling tradition of our cultures.

Tell Me a Story

Tell Me a Story
Author: Elaine Reese PhD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199333793

Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging. Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World shows parents how telling and sharing stories about family experiences can help children grow into healthy, happy adolescents and adults. Dr. Elaine Reese outlines the techniques that work best with children of all ages, from toddlers to teens, including children with learning delays and difficult temperaments. She also tackles challenging issues such as whether children profit at all from the stories that they experience through TV, movies, and video games; how storytelling differs from daughters to sons; and the best ways to continue to share family stories with children after a separation or divorce. Finally, Reese shares tips specially designed for storytelling with grandchildren, demonstrating how parents can and should continue to nurture family storytelling long after their children are grown, and especially once their children become parents themselves. Providing guidance on a positive, portable, and free way to enrich children's development, Tell Me a Story deserves a place in every parent's library.