Author(s): Erainna Winnett
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 40
Publisher: Counseling with Heart
Language: English
Date Published: 2014-06-10
Dimensions: 215.9 x 279.4 x 2.29mm
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Illustrations: Illustrations, black and white

Has your child's educational team recommended he or she repeat a grade? Is your child struggling with feelings of being "stupid" or a failure?
One of the best things about the end of the school year is promotion day and the excitement and anticipation of entering a new grade the next school year. However, some students are not promoted, and that can understandably cause many children to feel they aren't intelligent. If your child is struggling emotionally because he or she will be repeating a grade, you will find this activity book a valuable tool to help you support your child in dealing with this often necessary, but difficult, life event.
Using Better Days, parents can work directly with their children (ages 8 to 12) as they focus on positive characteristics rather than the negative things that caused retention.
With fun cartoon characters designed to capture children's attention engaging activities that help children identify their best characteristics and goals for the year exercises to help them feel in control and more confident as they begin the school year visual journaling alongside therapeutic drawing that help children identify and articulate how they see themselves
By spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty activities in this book, your child will learn to identify how to feel more confident as he or she prepares to repeat a grade. Get started today and help your child continue a successful journey toward academic achievement.
What parents are saying
"When my son's teacher and counselor recommended that he repeat the third grade, I agreed, but I knew it would crush his spirit. He was already struggling with feeling he wasn't as smart as other kids. I was so grateful when his teacher and counselor handed me Better Days, and we were only on the third activity when he suddenly announced that he could be the teacher's assistant. It's now about halfway through the school year, and the lessons he was struggling with so hard last year have started coming together for him in a way that he truly understands now."
"My daughter is ten years old and was sick a lot last year. We finally got the right diagnosis and she's on her way to being completely healthy. But because she missed so many days of school and her illness made it difficult for her to concentrate, we felt it would be better for her to repeat the fifth grade. I'll never forget the look on her face when we told her. She said it was worse than going to a new school. We spent the summer working in the Better Days workbook, and she realizes how behind she would have been if she'd gone on in to the sixth grade. Now she sees that she just needed to 'practice' the fifth grade is doing great. Thank you for helping her spirit to come back after her health did."
"I've been a fourth-grade teacher for thirty years and over the years have had the difficult time of recommending several students repeat. I've never regretted a recommendation but it's hard to see the look of defeat in many of the kids' eyes. I am so glad this workbook finally came along. I feel like I have something to give parents to help them and their kids feel more confident in the decision."