Using affirmations with children can help build trusting relationships and create space for them to be themselves. In this issue of Upbeat News, we share an excerpt from Just Because I Am: A Child’s Book of Affirmation by Lauren Murphy Payne, M.S.W., which has five activities and discussion starters to affirm and validate children. Read the excerpt.
We’re also spotlighting I Love You All the Time by Deborah Farmer Kris, a picture book that strengthens relationships by addressing a common childhood worry: Am I loved all the time?
For additional ways to use affirmations, read on. Also, be sure to grab our free download this month, the “I Can Choose to Think Confident Thoughts” poster from Feel Confident!, which helps children use positive self-talk. |
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I Love You All the Time speaks to the power of caregivers’ steady love to help children develop confidence, resilience, and emotional agility with words of affirmation for kids.
Parents and teachers want strategies for helping preschoolers manage their emotions. But to effectively teach emotional self-regulation strategies, children first need to know they are safe and loved—all the time. Even when they lose their temper, stay up too late, lose their shoes, or yell at their friend.
The book’s charming rhyme and heartwarming message make it perfect for storytime, home, the preschool classroom, and whenever children need a reminder that they’re loved.
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When Jamie arrives at a new preschool, all the children learn that gender expression doesn’t determine which toys to play with.
$12.99 | Ages 4–8
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This guided journal for teens offers a safe space for creative self-expression of all emotions, both positive and negative.
$15.99 | Ages 13 & up
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View more books with affirmations for kids and teens here.
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Tips & Tools from the Free Spirit Blog |
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Blogger Amanda C. Symmes, LICSW, explains what micro-affirmations are and how using them can allow educators to foster healthy, connected relationships with students. Read now.
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Blogger Isaiah Moore shares how he got back to his “teaching happy place”—and how you can too. Read now.
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“This is a reader-friendly text that has lots of tools teachers can utilize easily and purposefully. It clears up misconceptions teachers may have about 2e students and provides teachers with the tools to serve the needs of these students academically and socio-emotionally.”
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“I Can Choose to Think Confident Thoughts” Poster
Based on the book Feel Confident!, this free downloadable poster helps young children build self-confidence using positive self-talk like “be brave,” “do my best,” and “I can do it!”
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