Bookshelf: read with your child. Reading with your child: rules and secrets

Already in the middle of the last century, scientists sounded the alarm - the inhabitants of the planet read less and less.

And now the place of books is increasingly being replaced by the Internet and television, but this replacement is not equivalent. The role of books in a person’s life is invaluable. Without it, neither education nor the formation of culture in society is possible. It is the book that stores what is in various areas activities accumulated by humanity.

Without reading, a person does not develop, does not improve his intellect, memory, attention, imagination. He does not assimilate and use the experience of his predecessors, does not learn to think, analyze, compare, or draw conclusions.

Reading develops a person’s soul, teaches him to have compassion, be merciful, feel, use information, and explore it. And in our time, the ability to extract information, the ability to make the right and quick decision based on its analysis is considered high professionalism. Reading develops a person’s speech, makes it correct, clear, understandable, imaginative, and beautiful. Reading is an impulse for creative insight and the creation of a new artistic creation. [Gritsenko, Z.A. Tell your children a fairy tale... Methods for introducing children to reading. – M.: Linka – Press, 2003].

Reading skills, like most others, are developed in the home. It has been proven that reading aloud is the foundation on which a love of books grows. When instilling a culture of reading, it should be remembered that parents are the most important example for a child.

There is no substitute for reading together as a family from an early age.

For a long time this was mandatory not only in noble estates and palaces, but also in modest bourgeois houses and apartments. Almost every library and school displayed the slogan “Reading is the best learning.”

Today in many families the picture is different: parents spend their evenings at the computer or TV, involving their children in this. Experts have calculated that 90% of schoolchildren read not out of desire, but out of necessity, exclusively within the framework of curriculum. Meanwhile, it is literature that places emphasis on the spiritual values and moral priorities of the individual.

Preschoolers simply need to be unobtrusively introduced to the wonderful world of reading, book wonders and riddles.

The process of becoming familiar with the spiritual heritage through a book is quite long, but if the initial stage is successful, then over time the number of young people who love books will increase significantly. Family reading is very important not only during the period when the child cannot read, but also at a later age. Psychologists recommend reading aloud to children under 12 years of age. This allows you to stretch a kind of thread from the elders to the younger ones and maintain communication in the family. In order for a child to grow up comprehensively healthy, he needs full communication with his parents, and not just while preparing dinner or watching TV shows.

At the same time, through the book, the child perceives various models of behavior (the ability to make friends, achieve goals, resolve conflicts), which can be useful in various life situations. The best effect is achieved in cases where reading is supplemented by a joint discussion with the child about what he liked, what was close, what scared him, and what amused him.

As a rule, in families where parents often read a lot to their children, a harmonious and friendly atmosphere reigns.

It is important to renew and preserve the tradition of family reading for as long as possible. Is there anything more pleasant than taking a little man under your arm, sitting down with a book and going to unforgettable trip in other times and countries.

Municipal preschool educational institution

« Kindergarten No. 1 Vokhma village"

Vokhomsky municipal district Kostroma region

Consultation for parents

“We read to children, we read with children”

Prepared

Shadrina Irina Vasilievna

“The fate of a child depends on

what kind of adults surround him"

M.K. Bogolyubskaya

Children's literature is a rich collection of domestic and foreign poems, fairy tales, stories and stories designed for different age groups. Often on the end page of a book you can find a note “for reading by parents to children”, “for to school age", "for primary school age". However, at present, this market segment has expanded greatly: new authors, new works have appeared, and books beloved by parents since childhood have been republished. It is very difficult to understand all this abundance, because you need not only to find an interesting book, but also to understand how accessible it will be to the child.

At first, children's interest in a book depends entirely on adults, on their ability to choose a book, read it out loud, and talk about it.

Probably the most important way is to read aloud.

The duration and, so to speak, the “amount of reading” depend on the age and individual characteristics of the child, on the complexity of the book, on the child’s emotional state at that moment and, of course, on your reading abilities. But in any case, one main rule must be observed: reading a book should be a holiday for the child. Not casual entertainment, not just the acquisition of information, but a holiday, and great joy.

Reading aloud is not easy . And the difficulty here is not even so much in the ability to make the necessary pauses and divide the text into meaningful pieces. It is much more important to understand and feel the author’s style, to understand main idea works. And this will already suggest the right intonation and help find emotional contact between the writer, the adult reading and the little listener.

There are children's books that need to be reread several times. Sometimes this happens naturally: the child really loves the book and asks to read it again and again. Sometimes this is caused by the importance and necessity of the book, its deep and serious content. But in both cases, it is imperative to observe the measure. One book cannot overshadow all the others.

Preschoolers do not have to read only those books that can be read in one sitting. Children can also read voluminous books, even those with several hundred pages. There are also such books for children, for example, the well-known book by the English writer A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All.” Of course, reading is like this big book will stretch for for a long time and the very method of this reading must be special. You need to read in small pieces, so that one adventure ends and the next begins, so that children do not lose interest in the antics of the funny Winnie the Pooh. The book allows you to do this.

We need to try so that the child becomes, as it were, a full member of the fairy-tale company, and gets along with the heroes of this fairy tale. Maybe a teddy bear, which was previously just lying in a toy box, will help with this. Now call him Winnie the Pooh. Maybe all the friends of Winnie the Pooh will be in the baby’s toys, and a wonderful forest can be drawn or made from twigs, cubes, or simply from chairs. The child will look forward to continuing reading with great impatience and will remember everything that was read earlier better, especially if he plays and sings funny grumblers, noisemakers and puffers - little bear songs:

I am Tuchka, Tuchka, Tuchka,

And not a bear at all,

Oh, how nice it is for Cloud

Fly across the sky!

The kid will love Winnie the Pooh and will happily listen to this book for a whole year.

In general, you should always try to read to your baby “for a reason.” Look at the illustrations together and talk about them. Remember similar, living, life situations- and talk about them again. Come up with continuations of stories or imagine yourself in place characters, that is, to stimulate and awaken children's activity and children's creative imagination in every possible way.

Conversations about books, of course, should also have a purely pedagogical orientation. How did the child remember the content of the story? How did you understand it? Will he be able to retell and answer questions coherently?

If he can, then try to invite him to dream up: to compose a continuation of the story or his own story, a fairy tale. So reading will contribute to the development of memory, coherent speech, and logical thinking.

Reading books to kids is very interesting. And here an adult can show all his talents and skills. Let's fantasize about the possibilities that, for example, the well-known Russian folk tale“Three Bears” adapted by L. N. Tolstoy.

This fairy tale is small, it can be read in ten minutes. Read it - that's all. What if you stage this fairy tale in a home puppet or shadow theater? Well, let's try. First you need to distribute responsibilities. Let dad or older brother become the main director and director; mother together with grandmother, sister and baby - costume designers; Let grandpa prepare the screen and decorations. And every child has dolls and a bear.

Learning the piece won't be difficult. Both adults and little participants in the performance will quickly learn the words of their role and will ask with delight: “Who sat on my chair and broke it?!”

If all this seems too difficult, you can stage the fairy tale without puppets. Come up with some characteristic piece of clothing for each performer (a jacket and scarf for Nastasya Petrovna, a hat and jacket for Mikhail Ivanovich) and perform the play right in the room, without a stage or decorations, or just read it while sitting at the table.

There is another way to get acquainted with the fairy tale “The Three Bears”. First read it, and then sculpt all the characters from plasticine, make them from potatoes, cones, scraps and sticks.

From these examples it is clear how you can read books to kids, read in such a way as to arouse in them the desire not to part with the characters, to continue the action of the book, so that the book characters are not only remembered, but also loved, so that the child accepts them into his play.

Special attention poems that are so close to children deserve. Sometimes it seems that the rhythm itself is expressed in the rhythm of the verse children's movement, thinking, the beating of a child's heart. This is probably why little children can memorize poetic lines so easily, playfully. This happens to them as if involuntarily. But adults must intervene here too, carefully and persistently selecting the best examples of children’s poetry for the child, and making sure that the child’s circle of poetic affections expands with age. The range here is huge. From the poetic alphabet, which will help your child learn the alphabet in a fun and discreet way, to plot-driven long poetic fairy tales and works of literary classics.

An adult reading a book to a child, an adult simply choosing this book for a child, inevitably becomes a “co-author” of the writer and artist, a continuer of their pedagogical and artistic ideas.

An adult is the necessary link that connects the new, newly emerged life of a child with the endless world of creativity, the world of books.And the importance of this connection is difficult to overestimate

Consultation for parents

“We read to children, we read with children”

Prepared by the teacher

Emelyanova N. A.

Pavlovo 2016

“The fate of a child depends on

what kind of adults surround him"

M.K. Bogolyubskaya

Children's literature is a rich fund of domestic and foreign poems, fairy tales, stories and stories designed for different age groups. Often on the end page of the book you can find the note “for reading by parents to children”, “for preschool age”, “for primary school age”. However, at present, this market segment has expanded greatly: new authors, new works have appeared, and books beloved by parents since childhood have been republished. It is very difficult to understand all this abundance, because you need not only to find an interesting book, but also to understand how accessible it will be to the child.

At first, children's interest in a book depends entirely on adults, on their ability to choose a book, read it out loud, and talk about it.

Probably the most important way is to read aloud.

Reading aloud is not easy. And the difficulty here is not even so much in the ability to make the necessary pauses and divide the text into meaningful pieces. It is much more important to understand and feel the author’s style, to understand the main idea of the work. And this will already suggest the right intonation and help find emotional contact between the writer, the adult reading and the little listener.

Preschoolers do not have to read only those books that can be read in one sitting. Children can also read voluminous books, even those with several hundred pages. There are also such books for children, for example, the well-known book by the English writer A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All.” Of course, reading such a large book will take a long time, and the very method of reading it must be special. You need to read in small pieces, so that one adventure ends and the next begins, so that children do not lose interest in the antics of the funny Winnie the Pooh. The book allows you to do this.

I am Tuchka, Tuchka, Tuchka,

And not a bear at all,

Oh, how nice it is for Cloud

Fly across the sky!

The kid will love Winnie the Pooh and will happily listen to this book for a whole year.

In general, you should always try to read to your baby “for a reason.” Look at the illustrations together and talk about them. Remember similar, real life situations - and talk about them again. Come up with continuations of stories or imagine yourself in the place of the characters, that is, in every possible way stimulate and awaken children's activity, children's creative imagination.

Reading books to kids is very interesting. And here an adult can show all his talents and skills. Let's imagine what possibilities are hidden in, for example, the well-known Russian folk tale “The Three Bears” in the adaptation of L. N. Tolstoy.

There is another way to get acquainted with the fairy tale “The Three Bears”. First read it, and then sculpt all the characters from plasticine, make them from potatoes, cones, scraps and sticks.

The poems that are so close to children deserve special attention. Sometimes it seems that the rhythm of the verse expresses the very rhythm of the child’s movement, thinking, and beating of the child’s heart. This is probably why little children can memorize poetic lines so easily, playfully. This happens to them as if involuntarily. But adults must intervene here too, carefully and persistently selecting the best examples of children’s poetry for the child, and making sure that the child’s circle of poetic affections expands with age. The range here is huge. From the poetic alphabet, which will help your child learn the alphabet in a fun and discreet way, to plot-driven long poetic fairy tales and works of literary classics.

An adult reading a book to a child, an adult simply choosing this book for a child, inevitably becomes a “co-author” of the writer and artist, a continuer of their pedagogical and artistic ideas.

An adult is the necessary link that connects the new, newly emerged life of a child with the endless world of creativity, the world of books. And the importance of this connection is difficult to overestimate.

In my express review, I will try to touch upon not those books that everyone probably has - Russian fairy tales, fairy tales of the peoples of the world, Pushkin's fairy tales, Chukovsky's books, but to slightly expand the range of children's literature. Of course, “Deniska’s Stories” by Viktor Dragunsky never becomes outdated. The poems of Mikhalkov and Barto have lost their ideological component in the eyes of modern children, but have retained a light style, beautiful language and understandable, entertaining plots.

When I was growing up, there were a lot of books around me. Among my first books were Winnie the Pooh, Dunno in all its forms, then Jules Verne, then Jack London.

By the way, I would like to note that “Winnie the Pooh” by A. Milne is so well translated into Russian by B. Zakhoder that some parents, starting to study with their child English language according to the original version, they are surprised to notice that the original is not as funny and easy to read as the usual Russian version. This book can be read to a child as early as one and a half years old; children can learn to speak with its help.

Among the fairy tales of Russian writers, one can note “Town in a Snuffbox” by V. Odoevsky, “The Black Hen” by A. Pogorelsky and “ white heron» N. Teleshova. These stories are interesting and at the same time quite instructive.

Nikolai Nosov writes for older children; one might say that this is “children’s literature about non-children’s things.” In his books, he touches on issues of economics, astronomy, physics, literature and other sciences, telling about all subjects unobtrusively, fascinatingly and with great humor. Nosov has a whole palette of characters, they all have funny “talking” names, and the negative characters are extremely likable. Nosov's stories in the publications of my childhood were accompanied by memorable and emotional drawings by G. Valk.

Later the book “Moomintroll and the Comet” and other books by Tove Jansson appeared. In this outstanding book series, children are drawn to the incredible adventures of the characters. At the same time, the world of Tove Jansson is the world happy family, where Moominmama will feed and shelter everyone. Without the author’s wonderful illustrations, it would be quite difficult to navigate the abundance of colorful Scandinavian characters. Typically, this book is read between the ages of 9 and 12. The author speaks to the child as equals; the book contains ambiguous discussions about danger, loneliness, life, death, and time. We can say that Jansson’s books are written “for growth”, therefore, when they grow up, children re-read them again, discovering a lot of new things. By understanding the vicissitudes of the inhabitants of Moominvalley, children can transfer fairy-tale events to the world around us.

Made an indelible impression on me " The Little Prince» A. Saint-Exupery. Surely, we have heard more than once catchphrases: “only the heart is vigilant” and “we are responsible for those we have tamed.” A pilot who has suffered a plane crash and is exhausted from thirst in the desert suddenly receives moral support from a young inhabitant of another planet. Little boy instills in an adult faith in life and a sense of belonging to the whole world. There is an opinion that this book is a must-read at 10, 30 and 40 years old. Each time the plot is revealed from a different side through a combination of images, capacious, simple, and at the same time philosophical. So, looking at the hat, you learn the story of how a boa constrictor ate an elephant, and a lamb lives in the drawn box.

It is worth giving your child books by Jules Verne to read. Even after a hundred years, these books retained the feeling of delight from touching the mystery, the unknown, the joy of the power of the human mind. In addition, travel is always about learning about the world and, what is much more important, about learning about yourself, the desire for independence. And for the modern child, swimming sailing ship- it’s romance, it’s adventure, it’s a return to the well-forgotten past, it’s just fascinating.

I recently encountered classic book American children's literature "Where the Wild Things Are" (Where the wild things are) by Maurice Sendak. For Russian readers, just in case, let me remind you of the plot: the boy Max, punished by his mother for pampering, goes into an imaginary world in a wolf costume sea voyage. On his own ship, he ends up on an island inhabited by monsters, becomes their king, but still decides to return home, where he is expected for dinner loving parents. She was awarded the Caldecott Medal for best book with pictures. At first, the pedagogical community received the book very harshly; critics rendered a verdict that the book was strange, taught nothing, and encouraged hooliganism and disobedience.

But this one is interesting because it contains the world around us shown through the eyes of the child himself. Gradually there appeared positive reviews critics, who became more and more numerous, until Max's adventures entered the ranks of children's classics.

Parents often complain that their child does not like books and can only be forced to read. This usually happens in families where the parents themselves read little or have little time to spend with the child. If dad and mom don't read anything other than glossy magazines and culinary recipes, then the child is unlikely to reach for books. But try reading books out loud to your child at night. He still doesn't know how to do it himself. Then, perhaps, he will later want to know how wonderful stories and fairy-tale characters emerge from these white pieces of paper.

Photo - photobank Lori

Dear parents! For a child, it is not so important how much time a day you devote to him. It's how you do it that matters. Do you manage to tune in to the child’s wavelength, hear him, see him, be sincere and truly interact, or do you perform your parental functions automatically.

I recommend you a list of books. Reading together and subsequent discussion will make your communication even more fulfilling and varied. I will try to add to the list, share with you new products and simply my discoveries. All the best to you!

We read together with children from 2 to 7 years old:

1. Wright, Oliver: Jump-Jump Rabbit and his funny face

In our lives, sometimes things don't work out the way we want. We think it's better not to show our disappointment to our friends, and we keep this feeling to ourselves. But sooner or later it still breaks out. For example, even the inside of the rabbit Jump-Skok's ears turned red. But gradually he learned to cope with his anger. N. Wright and G. Oliver invite you to follow the example of our hero.

2. Norbert Landa: Hunting a Monster

Early in the morning, the goose was awakened by ominous sounds coming from under the bed. The goose couldn’t figure out what it was, and she was afraid to look under the bed. You never know what's there! What if there is a monster? Friends come to the goose's aid - Piglet, Bear, Wolf and Owl. Together they manage to unravel the mystery of the “formidable monster.” For preschool age. For children 3-5 years old.

3. Peter Nikl: True story about the good wolf

“The True Story of the Good Wolf,” written by the German philosopher-anthropologist Peter Nikl, is a beautiful and wise tale about how, due to stupid prejudices and established stereotypes, it is sometimes difficult for us to distinguish good from bad, good from evil, especially if evil looks so attractive and sounds so convincing that you want to believe him without looking back. But, as in any fairy tale, good here, of course, wins and teaches us an important lesson: be able to see and think with your own head.
Josef Wilkon (b. 1930) is a world-famous Polish artist and sculptor. His works are held in museums and private collections around the world. However general public Wilkon is known primarily as a book illustrator, who has created more than 200 books for children and adults, published in many languages.
His illustrations have a special, unique character and seem to transcend the boundaries of two-dimensional, flat space, creating miracles. Wilkon knows how to convey not only images, but also sensations. The loose, fresh snow he painted smells like snow and you want to touch it. A hand reaches out to the painted animals to stroke the skin. Wilkon can even draw the wind - a cold, piercing winter wind that blows from the pages and makes you shiver.
In Russia, books with illustrations by Josef Wilkon are being published for the first time: these are “The True Story of the Good Wolf” and “The Story of the Cat Rosalind, Unlike Others.” Both are published by the Melik-Pashayev publishing house. For children 3-6 years old.

4. Caryl Hart: The Princess and the Gifts

What awaits you under the cover: Preventive funny fairy tale for spoiled princesses (and princes too). You can't find more spoiled princesses like ours. And certainly other princesses don't get so many wonderful things on their birthdays. But guess what? Sometimes even princesses have too many gifts. And then every princess, even the most capricious and greedy, suddenly understands: but things are not the most important thing in life! Bright and colorful illustrations. Recommended age: 3-7 years.

5. Ekaterina Serova: A Tale of Fear

One day Fear came to the forest, and the little mouse decided to go on a journey to find someone who would teach animals and birds not to be afraid... A fairy tale in verse, written by Ekaterina Serova, will tell children that victory over fear is one of the biggest and most important in life ! And the expressive illustrations by Platon Shvets, filled with tenderness and kindness, will appeal to even the most demanding young readers and will give many joyful moments of communication with the book.

6. Levi Pinfold: Black Dog.

Have you ever heard the legend about the Black Dog? They say that just by looking at this monster, terrible things begin to happen in life... No one would blame the English family named Hope when, seeing the Black Dog near the door of their house, they were all a little scared. This story is about fear. About fearlessness. About how we look at the world.

7. Bedtime stories

We invite you to wonderful world fairy tales translated by the wonderful poet and translator Grigory Kruzhkov. You will find here five touching and funny stories about love, kindness and friendship that you will be happy to read to your baby at night. Go to the African desert with the gerbil Roble and to the magical garden with Nanuka, help Owl find true friend, and little Ted - to cope with his fears, and then fall asleep sweetly! For adults to read to children.

8. Nilsson, Erickson: Alone on stage

My younger brother thinks I sing the best. But I don’t want to sing in front of an audience for anything in the world. Spotlights shine directly into your eyes. I'm terribly shy. I cling tightly to the teacher... Should I go on stage? Alone? A real nightmare!
Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson - the legendary Swedish tandem of laureates of the Astrid Lindgren International Prize - deal with another fear familiar to everyone from childhood - stage fright - with understanding and humor.

9. David McKee: Elmer on Stilts

Trouble! Hunters are heading into the forest! The elephants are worried: what to do? Elmer, the checkered elephant, figures out how to trick the villains. But in life, things don't always go according to plan...
Inside the book you will find a sheet of stickers that you can use in Elmer's Sketchbook.

10. Tomi Ungerer: Three Thieves

The story of the three thieves is one of the most popular stories by Tom Ungerer, a writer and consummate illustrator. His works have long been considered classics of children's literature, and the author is put on a par with such great storytellers as Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.
A picture book by Tom Ungerer, a living classic of modern illustration, winner of the Andersen Prize (1988), about three fierce robbers who unexpectedly began to help orphaned children. For preschool children.

11. Steve Smallman: The Story of the Lamb Who Came to the Wolf for Dinner
One day a little sheep knocked on the house of a hungry wolf. The wolf could not believe his luck - he had dreamed of tasting meat stew for so long, and finally, the “stew” itself came right into his paws! But the sheep was trembling so much that the wolf had to warm it up first (he hated frozen food). Then the sheep began to hiccup and the wolf spent a long time calming it down (he was afraid that hiccups were contagious and that eating a hiccupping sheep would make him sick). In a word, one thing after another, the wolf himself did not notice how, while preparing the lamb “for dinner,” he became imbued with tenderness for it and could no longer so easily take it and eat it.
Touching story about the origins of friendship and love, written by the British Steve Smallman and illustrated by the young French artist Joëlle Dreidemy. For preschool age. For children 3-5 years old.

12. Lenain Thierry “We should”

An unborn child observes from his fairy-tale island the world in which he will live. A pure soul sees a lot of injustice and understands: it shouldn’t be this way. We should live differently. With the power of imagination, the kid turns guns into perches for birds and pipes for shepherds - so that there is no war, fills rivers with milk and water - so that there are no hungry people. He wants to divide bread, land and money among all people so that everyone lives in abundance. A touching, very affectionate story will tell little readers that it is within our power to change the world by doing a good deed. You just have to want it. For children 3–7 years old.

13. Maria Kutovaya “Tales from Tears”, “Tales of Great Battles, Sneaters and Greedy People”

Children grow, communicate with each other and adults, learn about the world around them and... sometimes behave in such a way that mothers and fathers, grandparents are surprised, indignant and angry! How, without lectures and moralizing, without scolding, can you let children understand what is “good” and what is “bad”? How to unobtrusively teach the rules by which the world around us lives? How to tactfully suggest a way out of difficult situations?
In the new book by M. S. Kutova, together with the children, you will find answers to these and many other questions.

14. Anni M.G. Schmidt "Sasha and Masha"

In the country of Holland there is not a single mother, not a single father, not a single boy and not a single girl who does not know and love funny and interesting stories about Sasha and Masha. Only in Holland these children are called Yip and Janeke... Difficult names, right? Therefore, we decided that in Russia they will be called Sasha and Masha. This book was written by Annie M. G. Schmidt. The most famous Dutch writer. She wrote a lot different stories and fairy tales, and even received the most main prize of all children's writers in the world - named after Hans Christian Andersen.
For children of primary school age.

15. S. Prokofieva "Capricious and Malicious"(3-5 years)

In this book you will find good and cautionary tales for very young children. They learn how good it is to be kind and caring, how great it is to have many friends, and what whims and hooliganism lead to.

16. Lyudmila Petranovskaya "What to do if..."(5-7 years)

A well-known child psychologist will tell your child in a fun way how to act correctly. difficult situations, which he encounters at every step, and colorful funny pictures will help him overcome fear and avoid danger.

17. Elinor Porter "Pollyanna"(from 7 years old)

The amazing story of an orphan girl (who was taken in by a stern aunt out of a “sense of duty”), whose ability to enjoy life under any circumstances, to see in everything better side helps not only herself, but also the people around her. Almost detective plot twists, the psychological precision with which the author creates images - all this has invariably attracted the attention of readers to the book for several generations.

18. Natalia Kedrova "The ABC of Emotions"(younger schoolchildren and teenagers)

The book by child psychologist and Gestalt therapist Natalia Kedrova is addressed to younger schoolchildren and teenagers who want to know more about how their experiences work, how to understand themselves and other people in joy, grief, resentment or envy, how respect or pride is experienced. You can read the book all at once or in small parts, rereading important parts. This will help you become more aware of your feelings and learn how to deal with them wisely. The book will be interesting not only for children, but also for adults, because they also need to understand the experiences of children and understand their feelings.

19. Doris Burt “Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl Like You”

What should you say to a child who is afraid of the dark? Or a little ambitious person who refuses to do something that he is not immediately good at? Or someone who gets teased at school? Or a survivor of a parent's divorce? In the book by Australian child psychologist D. Brett, the reader will find a whole scattering of examples, recipes and recommendations for these and many other problematic situations.