Raising a Thinking Child Workbook: Teaching Young Children How to Resolve Everyday Conflicts and Get Along with Others

by Myrna B. Shure, Theresa Foy Digeronimo, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

Overview

An evidence-based parenting workbook based on the highly acclaimed I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) violence prevention program for children . . .

This unique workbook serves as the ideal ICPS parent involvement component but also stands alone as an essential parent resource for dealing with typical parent-child and child-child difficulties.

Workbook pages are filled with dozens of inviting activities that help parents guide and children ages 4—7 to play games and color as they learn develop cognitive skills and social-emotional awareness. Situations include everything from a child's wanting attention while the parent is busy to teasing and fighting over toys to going to bed on time. The workbook also covers many positive situations--helping with household chores, sharing, comforting a hurt friend, and more.

By engaging in these activities and using a special kind of problem-solving talk called ICPS dialoguing, parents help children learn how to think, not what to think. With practice, children learn to think about what they do and why they do it, choose solutions based on consequences, negotiate for what they want, cope with frustration, and understand their own and others' feelings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878224586
Publisher:	Research Press
Publication date:	08/01/2000
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Myrna B. Shure, PhD, is a developmental psychologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia and the creator of the I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) program—an evidence-based school-based social and emotional learning/violence prevention program published by Research Press. ICPS has been recognized for research and service by numerous national organizations, including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the Center for the Study of Prevention of Violence. Dr. Shure is also author of the Raising a Thinking Child Workbook, an ICPS program for families also published by Research Press. She has been recognized by the American Psychological Association's Psychology Matters initiative for her outstanding research relating to schools and families resulting in valuable applications that make a difference in people's lives. Her books for parents, Raising a Thinking Child and Raising a Thinking Preteen, are both Parent Choice Award winners. Dr. Shure offers workshops nationwide and is also a media consultant on issues of mental health in our nation's youth.