Fairy Tales to Help Children Grow

Stephen Abramowitz

Description

A children's book using puppets, fairytales, and coloring pages, to keep children safe, problem solve and build self-esteem.
Imagine if you could educate your young child to be safe. Imagine if you could teach your youngster to feel good about who they are and cultivate self-esteem. What if you could coach your kids how to solve many of their own problems?

In Fairy Tales to Help Children Grow, author Stephen Abramowitz uses puppet shows, fairy tales, and a coloring book to help your kids as they mature—learn to problem solve, be safe, and build self-esteem.
Each lesson begins with a puppet show that introduces a problem a child is likely to encounter while interacting with others at school or around the home. A fairy tale illustrates the problem and offers a solution a youngster can identify with. After an adult (a teacher or parent) reinforces the objective, the child is encouraged to color a picture of the major character discussed in the fairy tale, helping them understand and grow.

Sujets

• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 11 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663252555
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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Fairy Tales to Help Children Grow
 
 
 
 
Stephen Abramowitz
Illustrated by Miguel Com acho
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FAIRY TALES TO HELP CHILDREN GROW
 
 
Copyright © 2023 Stephen Abramowitz.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
 
 
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5254-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5255-5 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023907388
 
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 06/22/2023
Contents
About the Author
Preface
Introduction
An Overview
 
1     Do Not Eat That
2     Ugly Is Only Skin Deep
3     Need Help? Do Not Cry Wolf
4     Halloween
5     Seeing Is Believing
6     Let’s Make a Deal
7     Do unto Others
8     Whom Do You Trust?
9     You Have to Believe
10   Medicines Are Good Drugs
11   You Cannot Judge a Book by Its Cover
12   You’re Not Getting Older, Just Better
13   He Who Laughs Last
14   From Head to Toe
15   The Grass Is Always Greener
16   Walk, Don’t Ride
17   It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature
18   All That Glitters Isn’t Good
19   She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
20   It Is a Cold World, but Someone Has to Warm It
21   My Kingdom for a Friend
22   One Slice of Humble Pie, Please
23   Monkey Sees, Monkey Does
24   What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet?
25   The Fairest of Them All
26   The 4-1-1 on 9-1-1
27   The Who’s Who of Kindergarten and First Grade
28   Why Am I Different?
29   Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
30   A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Dollars
31   When You Don’t Think Things   Could Get Worse, They Don’t
32   Let’s Leave Bullying to the Bulls
33   Life Is Like a Match in the Wind
34   Actions Speak Louder Than Words
35   He Said He Would Hurt Me If I Told
36   Food for Thought
37   Who Loves You, Baby?
38   How Safe Is Our School?
39   Fairy Tales.com
40   Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
41   Growing Old before Your Time
42   Some Final Thoughts
 
Fairy Tales to Help Children Gro w Coloring Book
About the Author
Stephen Abramowitz was an educator for the New York City Board of Education for more than thirty-five years. He was a teacher, vice principal, and director of a substance abuse prevention program. He worked with inner-city children, their siblings, and parents. Mr. Abramowitz earned three master’s degrees in different fields of education. He earned a master of arts degree from The City College, a master of science in education from Hofstra University, and a master of education from Rutgers University, where he served as a consultant to a drug prevention program. He pursued a doctorate at New York University but withdrew when he felt he could better benefit from a more diversified education.
While heading the drug prevention program in New York City’s 14th school district, he began writing curriculum to make young children aware of the dangerous drugs and substances found in the home. This curriculum received a $50 million grant from the US Secretary of Education, Edward Bennett, to continue working on the book. He trained and supervised nineteen substance prevention professionals and stationed them in every school in his district. Their feedback gave him the impetus to write this book.
Preface
The tragedies of September 11, 2001, and COVID-19 affected everyone who was old enough to understand what took place. Those events had negative effects and introduced new concerns about terrorism.
Teachers and parents who had the responsibility to teach children about the dangers of terrorism now preach vigilance and safety at the expense of self-esteem and health. The attacks had major effects on socialization as well. It introduced a new vulnerability that places everyone in jeopardy of injury or illness. The killing of innocent people has created new fears. We have been alerted that another strike could take place at any time or place. As in former times of war, tragedies are escalating as children try to escape the thought that they could be next. With this fear, there is a tendency to decrease the hypocrisy of warning our children not to do what we do.
What lies ahead is a huge task. We must overcome the mistake of neglecting tragedies and increase efforts to show children that escaping isn’t the answer. We must end the practice of self-pity by changing thoughts that terrorists doom us all.
It’s our obligation to educate our children so they won’t fall prey to terrorism and health threats. The usual sources may have taken a hiatus, but the job must be continued if we are to prevent future tragedies among our youth. What you are about to see is a new approach to accomplish this education. This book will outline a way to emphasize safety, self-esteem, and problem-solving in kindergarten with the hope of teaching children right from wrong as soon as they are old enough to know the difference.
This book will set down a foundation, which can be repeated and built on as children progress to the critical age of experimentation.
Introduction
About This Book
Fairy Tales to Help Children Grow is a book designed to help parents and teachers introduce concepts to children as young as three years old. It uses fairy tales to introduce topics that can help children keep themselves safe, build self-esteem, problem solve, and understand right from wrong.
Did you ever catch your child holding an object that could cause serious illness if ingested? When Alice in Wonderland drank an unknown liquid and ate a strange muffin, her body changed completely. By reading this story to your child, you will demonstrate how dangerous it is to eat unknown objects. The story of the ugly duckling can teach your child that everyone has beauty no matter what others say. This is an excellent self-esteem booster. The stories of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” can teach your child that lying is wrong.
Each lesson combines three exciting forms of entertainment for children: a fairy tale, puppet shows, and a coloring page. Fairy tales can be chosen from many sources. Any fairy tale can be used as long as there is a message that relates to some form of child growth. Countless books contain collections; there are books featuring individual stories, and there are thousands of tales authors list on the internet.
The length of fairy tales varies with the source you choose. Internet versions are usually short, collections have stories that are somewhat longer, and individual books are embellished with pictures, making them the longest of the choices. You will find that it doesn’t matter which form you use. Teachers will probably have individual books at their disposal, and may use these as part of their guided reading lesson. Parents may use any form and may even ad-lib a tale as long as it highlights the lesson or moral being stressed. For the purposes of highlighting child growth, I won’t reproduce the fairy tales in this book. I will summarize the story and point out the section that is critical to the moral of the lesson.
The puppet shows are designed to focus on a problem children encounter in their everyday lives. All puppet shows feature two puppets. I have chosen the names Jordan and Samantha for the puppets used in my stories, but any names may be substituted. These puppets may be simple paper bags that have faces drawn on them, or they can be store-bought. One should be a boy and the other a girl. Experience shows that children relate best to their favorite television characters who are their age or slightly older. The same puppets may be used throughout the entire series of stories. The puppet stage can be a classroom desk with construction paper covering the front or a kitchen table with the tablecloth hanging down. (Children have great imaginations and will allow themselves to be entertained by anyone who tries.)
At the end of the lessons, the teacher or parent will find a reproducible coloring sheet that highlights one of the characters in the fairy tale. While children are coloring the page, the teacher should summarize the lesson and point out the lessons to be learned. Once the children have finished coloring, they should be asked to repeat what was learned.
This book is a compilation of forty lessons, each with its own topic and subtopics covering a wide range of decision-making skills. It can be used as a self-contained health education curriculum, with one lesson being taught at a specific time each week during the forty school weeks. By using the included English Language Arts Standards, the cur