I Can Be Brave, 4: A Child's Guide to Boosting Self-Confidence, Paperback

This practical guide combines cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness methods with simple activities to help your child improve their self-confidence and self-esteem. Children experience so many highs and lows during their primary school years that can impact their emotional well-being, not just now, but for years to come.

Your child will be guided, with the help of Pip--a friendly and supportive character they can identify with--through fun and engaging activities interspersed with useful tips, inspirational statements, and practical information for parents.

Topics include:

• Recognizing signs of low and high self-confidence
• Understanding "self-talk"
• Using quick confidence boosters
• Learning mindfulness and meditation
• Practicing assertiveness
• Sitting with tricky emotions
• Exercising, eating healthy, and sleeping
• Creating a confidence action plan
• And more!

Activities include creating a glitter jar, coloring a mood tracker, practicing one-minute visualizations, learning breathing techniques, and making a confidence box.

About author(s):Poppy O'Neill runs a writers' retreat in Portsmouth. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, and her flash fiction has been long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the Bristol Prize. She resides in Chichester, England.