Childrens books about healthy relationships

Healthy relationships are something all parents want for their children. In pre-school, we teach them how to be a good friend and how to play well with others. In the elementary grades, we teach them about bullies. According to the Centers for Disease Control , one in ten high school students has been purposefully hit, slapped, or physically hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend. By teaching children the key elements to healthy relationships, teens and young adults are more likely to have healthy long-lasting relationships.

Help your child develop important lifelong skills and behaviours with this list of fabulous picture books about friendship, communication and other social skills. Social skills are the skills we need to interact and communicate effectively with others. Having good social skills helps you to develop healthy relationships with other people, which at least, for most of us is vital to emotional health and well being. Whatever their age or stage, our children are honing their social skills. When they are little, we watch them as they learn to share and take turns, actively supporting their development of social skills whenever they run into difficulty.

The gang's all here: old favorites, newer gems, and some YA novels for the older kids and, yes, you too. Don't forget to add these top parenting books to Mom and Dad's reading list as well. It's hard to be a kid and a grown-up for that matter. In this cautionary tale, Marigold aims to impress her classmates by bringing an alligator to show and tell. Despite their difference in size and, well, extinction , preschoolers have a special kind of kinship with dinosaurs. Read it alongside your middle schooler.