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About The Book
The Bubble Brigade: Teaching Children the Concept of Personal Space and how to Protect Themselves
Children need to learn about personal space and assertiveness. The Bubble Brigade explains the concept of personal space in an easy way for them to understand.
The skill of self-protection, “bully-proofing” if you will, is also explained. This is also at the appropriate developmental level.
As a primary school counselor, I taught these social skills lessons and many more to our students starting kindergarten and reinforced them the following two years.
Appreciating personal space and knowing how to protect yourself are obliviously lifelong skills crucial to personal growth and development. The Bubble Brigade teaches these concepts and skills.
The story behind the book The Bubble Brigade
It’s important for young children to be taught the concepts of personal space, bully proofing and abuse prevention. The Bubble Brigade is how I explained and taught these concepts to my kindergarten students and reinforced the lesson in the following two grades. This information and the accompanying skills taught with them can be taught by a school counselor during guidance lessons, by teachers or simply by parents or guardians. They are life skills that, when internalized, can both prevent problems and be used to overcome problems. The lessons were taught in an easy way for young children to understand and reinforced through The Bubble Brigade.
The Guidance Series
Solutions to Specific Childhood Problems
Books in “The Guidance Series” are meant to be read to children by parents, caretakers, school counselors or teachers. After the reading there would hopefully then be a discussion of what the book was about and what should be learned from the story.
The books in this series fall into two categories – problem solving or problem prevention:
- The problem solving generally deal with a specific issue [divorce, stealing ,sleep issues, etc.]
- The problem prevention stories are meant to be more educational in nature and teach skills used to avoid problems in the first place [personal space, bully proofing, making and keeping friends, etc.]
All the books in this series are about real issues I was involved in helping elevate or social skills I taught my students as their school counselor.
During my career I had many books I would read to my students to help teach them important lessons about such things as manners, responsibility, etc.. I had a small library in my office for that purpose and I also used that to loan parents and teachers books on various topics to read to their students or children.
I would suggest to my fellow elementary school counselors adding the books in this series to their personal or school library. You never know when one of them might come in handy and, compared to many books I purchased , they are not very expensive.
Joseph, Froggy, and Mrs. Slattery
Selective mutism is a difficult problem to overcome. But, with the student described in this book, we were successful—no easy task with this condition.
The Bubble Brigade
Teaching Children the Concept of Personal Space and how to Protect Themselves
This book explains the concept of personal space and the skill of self-protection, “bully-proofing,” in an easy way for children to understand.
Four Friends
A Book about Making and Keeping Friends
Some children seem to make friends easily while others struggle. Children can be taught friendship making skills as well as conflict resolution.
The Dream Box
The story of a second-grade girl who is having sleep issues. The technique illustrated in this book was used successfully numerous times by the author in dealing with students with the same problem.
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