Finding Forever Friends: What, When, Where and How
Welcome to the world of Just Jessica. This book, Finding Forever Friends, is the fifth book in the Just Jessica Life Lessons series of fun rhyming books focused on serious subjects and geared to help children learn new ways to work together and feel good about themselves. The series provides a roadmap to self-awareness that utilizes social and emotional learning experiences which help guide them along the way. Making friends can sometimes be difficult for all of us, but as a child it can be overwhelming and interfere with healthy growth and maturation. Feelings of awkwardness and inferiority can often drive a child to rely on avoidance and isolation as a means of coping. Even worse, some children may subconsciously develop unwanted antisocial acting out behaviors in order to protect themselves from the emotional hurt associated with being ostracized. Ultimately, these behaviors serve to wall children off from forming any close positive relationships. Either way, it seems that a child's inability to create these lasting and meaningful relationships could seriously interfere with their social, emotional and academic growth and maturation. It is understood that an integral part of everyone's personal growth is developing an ability to acquire the social skills and the confidence that allows us to trust and interact with others as we work and play together as children. These are not only children and classroom matters, but issues that can follow a person into adulthood. Remember middle school? This inadequate sense of self frequently leads to
isolation and intensifies each child's unique difficulties. As a result, this can interfere with learning and a child's ability to make and keep friends.
What is a good friend? Why do I need them? Where are they hiding? How do I make friends? More importantly, how do I keep them? Feeling awkward and uncomfortable with people can be difficult to overcome. Finding Forever Friends provides a mechanism to foster discussions about the answers to these very important and provocative questions. We hope to provide opportunies for the reader to consider options including the need for rules and expectations. We hope to help the reader understand they are not alone and may share many interests that others may also have. Most importantly, we provide an opportunity for children to discuss and gain insight into why friendships are important in life. We also know that being preoccupied with a poor self-image can interfere with working collaboratively in a classroom or at home. All these distressing emotions can get in the way of learning and the pursuit of happiness. They can prevent children from finding new and better ways to solve problems, get things done and ultimately feel good about who they are. Finding Forever Friends helps children look at themselves as not alone, learn various ways to share themselves and their interests with others. All this helps them feel more easily accepted and ultimately able to make friends.
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