101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

doing?” encouraged Confidence.) It was the same with cursive writing. She had been so slow at it, until she started practicing a ...

A s childhood is a time of rapid development, Holmbeck, Greenley, and Franks (2003) consider our therapeutic subjects to be deve ...

STORY 61 FACING A MORAL DILEMMA: A KID STORY Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ A moral dilemma ■ Being in trouble ...

Maybe he could tell a lie and make it sound as though it really hadn’t been his fault. After all, he had told some little lies i ...

Resources Developed ■ Exploring personal moral standards ■ Learning to face consequences ■ Learning to be responsible ■ Learning ...

STORY 63 LEARNING ABOUT RULES Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Resenting rules ■ Antisocial behaviors ■ Rebellio ...

along better together. If we follow the rules not to steal other people’s things or to hurt others, we get along better together ...

rible his life was, and wondering if it would ever get better. Then, the worst thing of all happened. In some ways it might be g ...

RALFI, however, kept to the business at hand. “Do you want to see the way it could be or the way you want it to be in twelve mon ...

by. Seeing the rabbit, the fox forgot about his easy breakfast and greedily thought, What luck, a rabbit is bigger and tastier t ...

Saturday mornings were a time to which Janey looked forward. She often seemed to be in trouble for one thing or another: She had ...

ing freedom, but one of them was in for a big surprise. Miraculously, Mr. Grumblebum landed be- tween the skier’s arms, his feet ...

Kelly was on a school excursion to the zoo. Everyone knew that Kelly—especially Kelly him- self—had a fantastic imagination. Dur ...

STORY 68 TAKING A DIFFERENT VIEW Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Relationship conflicts ■ Sibling rivalry ■ See ...

He led his own horse across to the corral that contained the seventeen left by the young men’s father. He pushed the gate open, ...

some mornings more than others, because sometimes the nights before had been scarier than others. You see, Fred Mouse was afraid ...

When Fred went to bed that night it was with lots of thoughts in his mind about the conversa- tions he’d had during the day. Wha ...

Grandpa noted Daniel’s name at the top of the list. Daniel and Thomas were best friends as well as friendly rivals. They were al ...

seen Daniel training? No, he never puts in the effort. Set your goal, work hard toward it if that is what you really want, and y ...

T o live a successful life as an adult, a child needs to become a successful problem solver. Children need to acquire the skills ...