Emma Green
ASIN: B00BRGFZPG
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 73
I wrote this book because I wanted to discuss important concepts, such as responsibility, personal power, choice, acceptance, denial, compassion, peer pressure, jealousy, selfishness, perseverence, boundaries and gratitude, with my childrenStories are a powerful teaching tool, an excellent way to inititate important conversations and can explain life skills, yet the stories I found in traditional books didn't help the way I wanted. Reading Cinderella to my little girl left me cringing at her learned helplessness and victimhood. And do I really want my sons to grow up believing pretty women are universally good and make excellent wives, while ugly women are evil and vindictive?All my children love being told stories, and continued to respond to them in a way they never have to a straighforward lesson. Eventually I decided that I wanted to write some short stories for children which had ...