101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens

STORY 71 OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: A KID STORY Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Loss ■ Sadness ■ Global thinking ■ N ...

is the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. How will we ever get over it?” And with that she felt even sadder. Debbie s ...

Resources Developed ■ Thinking beyond yourself (of loved ones) ■ Thinking positively ■ Being optimistic ■ Looking forward ■ Bein ...

In the tent by himself, Beck’s hands were too frozen to allow him to open a water bottle and have a drink. The blizzard blew the ...

helped a little and some haven’t been very helpful at all. Much as you might not want to, I guess you have built up a reasonable ...

Resources Developed ■ Learning what you are good at... and not good at ■ Looking for practical solutions ■ Creating back-up plan ...

peeked out of their curtains wondering whose home it might target tonight—and saw Wally hold- ing his overripe banana. They held ...

■ Learning from observation and experience ■ Using lateral thinking Outcomes Offered ■ Self-reliance ■ Power of observation ■ Cr ...

level must have dropped. When it flopped back in, the level rose. “Thank you, crocodile,” called out the little bird as it turne ...

“Well,” said Mrs. Ostrich, “I’ve never really thought about it, but I think it must be that I stretch my neck down to the ground ...

STORY 77 LEARNING TO SHARE Therapeutic Characteristics Problems Addressed ■ Relationship conflicts ■ Desire for what the other h ...

“We need a war to get our stones back,” said the queen, so another war was declared. Once more the stones were hurled across the ...

Outcomes Offered ■ Love and care ■ Te nding to the neglected ■ Knowing how one person can make a difference ■ Knowing that kids ...

Now a whole bunch of kids are pretty proud of that patch, and they sure aren’t going to let any other kids—or adults—mess it up. ...

“I’ll go to football matches and other places where there are big crowds. I’ll ride around mak- ing sure everyone does everythin ...

“I think you’re going to make a wonderful policewoman,” I said. “If you keep your training go- ing like this, the only other thi ...

you three wishes. This one was old and battered, and had barnacles growing off it like it had been at sea for a long time. The g ...

“Well, I’m only telling you this because you’ve been kind to me,” he said. “How do I know what happiness means to you? If you’re ...

be better. But what you wish for and what you want needs to be realistic. It needs to be something that you can actually attain. ...

I f it is true that bad things can happen to good people, then really rotten things can happen to un- deserving children at time ...