An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales: From Angry Ant to Zestless Zebra [Paperback]

Unlock positive behavior change in children with this A-Z collection of therapeutic tales!

From Angry Ant to Zestless Zebra, this book offers a delightful array of stories designed to address challenging behaviors in children aged 3-9. Each tale uses engaging metaphors and imaginative journeys to help shift out-of-balance behaviors towards wholeness and balance.

Discover story medicine as a creative strategy for parenting, teaching, and counseling. These stories cover universal behaviors like anxiety, bossiness, crankiness, greed, jealousy, and more. Perfect for parents, teachers, and counselors seeking a fun and effective way to nurture positive values and promote emotional well-being in children.

• Encourage empathy and understanding
• Promote positive behavior change
• Develop social skills

Each story in this collection begins with an undesirable or out-of-balance situation and, through the use of metaphor and an imaginative story journey, leads to a more desirable resolution. In this way, the stories also have the potential for nurturing positive values.This charming and beautifully illustrated book essentially offers something called story medicine as a creative strategy for parenting, teaching and even counselling. The key concept of story medicine or healing stories is that the right story, told at the right time, can unlock something within a child and eventually bring about desired (or much needed) change. One example would be of a child deliberately annoying other children and destroying the peace in the classroom for the whole group. The teacher might then read the story about Obnoxious Octopus so the whole class is presented with a template for solving the problem and behaving or responding differently. The child concerned might now receive positive attention (without having to act annoying to get it) and the other children are inspired to try different ways of behaving around this particular child. When evel³