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5) When the world feels like a scary place: essential conversations for anxious parents & worried kids
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Coping Skills and Mental Health - Kids
Coping with Gun Violence
Coping with Gun Violence (Youth)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Coping with Gun Violence
Coping with Gun Violence (Youth)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
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"In our complicated world, big issues make both parents and children anxious. So how should parents talk to their kids about the things that make both parent and child on edge - from family financial issues to school shootings to global warming? Here, an expert child psychologist offers parents scripts for conversations that will help us raise kids who are informed, engaged, and confident."--Publisher's description.
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Little Frog (Jane Yolen) volume 1
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"It's Little Frog's first autumn, and she doesn't like it one bit. It is not the green world she loves so much, but something scarier and ominous, filled with red and gold and yellow. And noise! WHIRRRRR. CHIRRRR. BAROOOOOOM. But encouraged by her Mama, who reminds her that "Most things that are scary are just new, " Little Frog bravely sets out into this world. When her courage waivers, she starts to run and soon is lost, miserably lost. She finds...
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"Have you ever been afraid? What did you do to try to deal with those fears? This useful volume on dealing with feeling afraid is a helpful resource for young readers struggling with anxiety, which happens at all stages of life. Throughout this age-appropriate and accessible main text, readers are exposed to familiar examples of common fears. They then learn how to cope with feelings of fear and anxiety in a healthy way. The eye-catching, full-color...
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"Kids have big feelings, but none of their feelings are too big for God. In this picture book from licensed counselor Michelle Nietert and Tama Fortner, young readers will explore what it means to feel scared and discover how to manage their emotions in a healthy way. Scared is a feeling that can be hard, but if we listen to it, we can learn things about ourselves. In God, I Feel Scared, kids discover that it's okay to be scared and that God is with...
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Learn how to read the behavioral language of fear and talk through your child's anxieties
Adults often have trouble understanding and addressing the sources of their children's fears. In Listening to Fear, Dr. Steven Marans shares the techniques for easing distress that he has developed for children of all ages in his work as the director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at Yale University.
His advice is based on three steps...
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Teach kids the joy of adventure and exploration. Any conversation about adventure inevitably means having a conversation about the difference between healthy concern and overblown worry. What is adventure? What causes fear? That's what this book explores--how living a life of adventure means living a life facing your fears.
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Chloe and her older brother, Will, have a puppy named Jessie. Will and Jessie the puppy play together all the time, but Chloe is afraid of the little dog. When Will breaks his leg, he's stuck in the hospital for week. Now there's no one to play with Jessie or take her for long walks. Can Chloe and Jessie become friends?
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In a delightfully subtle way, Polisar promotes self esteem through a character who thinks for himself in this companion book to The Snake Who Was Afraid of People. Afraid of snakes, Lenny has to endure a field trip to the zoo's snake house. He encounters taunts from his bullying classmates and little sympathy from his teacher and guidance counselor, who are pictured increasingly snake-like and menacing until the wickedly funny surprise ending. It's...
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Alvin Ho volume 6
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Fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho goes on a trip to China with his family.
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"With charming illustrations, subtle whimsy, and a gentle approach to serious themes, Pig and Horse and the Something Scary acknowledges the fears and worries that children can feel in their bodies and minds. It encourages heartfelt conversations about emotional challenges, while also exploring the power of a supportive, caring friend." --
18) Melvin might?
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Melvin, a cautious cement mixer, worries that he can't keep up with the other trucks, but when Rescue Rita needs to be rescued, he overcomes his worries and fears in order to help her.
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Squish volume 7
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Afraid to watch horror movies with his friend, Pod, Squish the amoeba feels better after learning that even comic book superheroes get scared sometimes.
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