Wow. Some things you know intuitively, but you don’t take the time to consider how astounding they are until someone puts all of the pieces together like this filmmaker did. In Friendship & Other Weapons, parents and professionals have three chapters devoted to helping kids examine media influences and pressures, knowing that awareness can build resistance.
Please check out this amazing short film–with your daughter!
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How to Be Angry honors the experience of anger in a young person's life and gives kids a set of skills for expressing it constructively. Suitable for use with kids aged 5 - 18, How to Be Angry is packed with engaging activities, discussions, realistic scenarios, and skill building opportunities.
–Excellent ideas for working in a school setting!
–Outstanding examples of strategies & activities that I can use immediately in my practice!
–Signe Whitson brought a great energy to her presentation and used examples of her experiences very effectively to add to evidence-based information.
–Signe was one of the most engaging, energetic, knowledgeable, and lovely presenters I’ve had the good fortune to meet. Thank you for a wonderful day!
–Best training I have attended in as long as I can remember!
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