We all experience emotions and emotions are absolutely fine as long as we know what to do with them. Feelings arrive effortlessly enough but deciding what to do with them when they turn isn't so easy - especially when you are a child. Cue: this book! It provides children with several straightforward, entertaining and appropriate interactive ideas to help them deal with a selection of significant emotions. This is a great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling.
What makes us a good friend? And what might make us a not-so-good friend? What can friends do together? And how do we make friends? Best-selling author Molly Potter presents practical advice on helping children understand how to be a true friend and what helps and what hinders friendships. Will You Be My Friend? is ideal for starting conversations about making friends and includes a guide for parents and carers about supporting a child if they are having friendship difficulties. With fun and lively illustrations from Sarah Jennings, this book is both humorous and charming, and prompts children to discuss the idea of friendship with parents and peers.
人際關係的建立對於學齡前的孩子來說是相當重要的生活課題。結交朋友對孩子的自信心、自尊心和人格發展都非常重要。孩子可以在和朋友相處時學習各種重要的生命課題，比如：溝通、同理心、體貼、愛與關懷、分享，以及聆聽他人真正的想法，並且在難免與他人起衝突時，學習真誠道歉的方法。和朋友互動的過程，同時也能引導孩子更加了解自己、更能自我覺察，以及懂得善待他人。最重要的是，引導孩子交到真正的好朋友。
這本書不但可以幫助孩子交到朋友，也可以引導孩子對他人做出友善的行為，例如：對人微笑、對人客氣、有技巧地問人問題，表示你對他們做的事情很有興趣。外向的孩子可能常常跟朋友在一起，比較安靜的孩子也許喜歡交少一點朋友，不過彼此維持更深刻的友誼，並沒有哪一種情況優於另一種狀況──孩子們只是具有不同的性格而已。
大部分孩子在成長過程中偶爾都會經歷人際關係的困擾，這本書提供許多實用且有效的建議和做法，可以幫助孩子發展、維持良好的人際關係，協助家長陪孩子釐清怎樣才是真正的好朋友，理解、支持孩子的交友圈並且與孩子共同面對、處理破裂的友誼，讓孩子敞開心胸，主動與家長、師長及同儕探討友誼的真正意義。
本書特別收錄給父母親和照顧者閱讀的家長指南──關於友誼，你可以了解的更多，和孩子一起分享、共讀這本書，一起探測有時候常令人深感困惑的友誼世界和人際網絡，進而發展出快樂、健康、友善的人際關係。
Book Titles:
The Same but Different 我們一樣不一樣
It's OK to Cry 告訴我，你怎麼了？
What is Worrying You? 我有大煩惱
How Are You Feeling Today? 我不亂生氣
Will You Be My Friend? 我愛交朋友
By Molly Potter, Paperback, Traditional Chinese characters, 32 pages/book, 10.1"x10.1"
