Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour (Early Years)

I got this book for my four year old daughter about a month ago. She has asked for stories from it every night since. They are stories with a deeper meaning and are joyous to read over and over again. Not the usual bland story, but unique, magical and almost mystical. They leave you wanting to read more, think more and often my daughter has brought forward some meaning which I hadn't seen. It is lovely to see what she interprets from and already has favorites which she requests depending on how she is feeling that day. Highly recommend to anyone who wants more from a story.

It is easy to pressure children and use authority in solving problems, but in the long run the problems will surface with greater magnitude and require more healing and dealing. Children are person just like we adults, and nobody can force anyone to do anything. As a person one can influence the other, but how is more important than the result.

Both my kids and I really enjoy these stories. Healing, beautiful and different. Would recommend to any parent.

Love reading the stories in both Susan Perrows books.

Great book- but could do with a more subtle, child friendly front cover as they thought it looked boring so wouldn't let me read it!!!

This book is lovely - my son is 5 and has been experiencing problems relating to early traumatic experiences and subsequent behavioural difficulties. I have copied some of the stories from "Healing stories..." into a scrapbook and every night I read one to him and we talk about it and he draws a picture. I have been really inspired to write some of my own with guidance from this book, as his behaviour and his feelings have improved no end since we've been doing this together! It's a lovely book and practical and touching.

A fantastic book. Full of wonderful ideas of how to work and help children though the use of stories. Really worth reading.

I bought this book to help me to learn how to tell stories to my child who has challenging behaviour. So far I am finding it interesting and useful.

Really worth it! Good to read out to kids :)

I bought the kindle edition a few days ago and cannot put the book down. The stories that the book contain are wonderful but that is only the beginning of it. Susan had laid out in a clear and exiting way both her development with story teller as an educator, mother and healer. The way she describes how she creates the stories is magnificent both in its simplicity and depth. It is inspiring to learn about the success stories of how the stories helped different children and adults, in fact saved them in certain instances.The kindle edition is great. It is also easy to navigate around the book, what I did was, jump to a story with just search of the title and then going back with a book mark.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with children between 3 and 8. I've used a few of the stories on my children and my childcare kids and they yield immediate results, far more effective in affirming positive behavior and correcting negative behavior than any other parenting method I've used, I was impressed. I found it better to tell the story to the children instead of read it. The book is beautifully written and to the point, I love how every story comes with a guide on how it can be used.

Love this book has great stories and information

The book provides helpful insights to building stories and dealing with tricky behavioral situations with children. The stories have inspired me to review my own observations and experiences and present them as 'stories'.