101 Life Skills Games for Children Learning, Growing, Getting Along (Ages 6-12)

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Format: Spiral Bound
Pub. Date: 2005-10-19
Publisher(s): Hunter House
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Summary

How do you teach tolerance, self-awareness, and responsibility? How can you help children deal with fear, mistrust, or aggression?

Play a game with them! Games are an ideal way to help children develop social and emotional skills; they are exciting, relaxing, and fun.

101 LIFE SKILLS GAMES FOR CHILDREN: LEARNING, GROWING, GETTING ALONG (Ages 6-12) is a resource that can help children understand and deal with problems that arise in daily interactions with other children and adults. These games help children develop social and emotional skills and enhance self-awareness.

The games address the following issues: dependence, aggression, fear, resentment, disability, accusations, boasting, honesty, flexibility, patience, secrets, conscience, inhibitions, stereotypes, noise, lying, performance, closeness, weaknesses, self confidence, fun, reassurance, love, respect, integrating a new classmate, group conflict.

Organized in three main chapters: (I-Games, You-Games and We-Games), the book is well structured and easily accessible. It specifies an objective for every game, gives step-by-step instructions, and offers questions for reflection. It provides possible variations for each game, examples, tips, and ideas for role plays. Each game contains references to appropriate follow-up games and is illustrated with charming drawings.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
Introduction
Thoughts on Playing with Childrenp. 1
Play Therapy and Game Pedagogyp. 3
How to Use This Bookp. 4
A Brief Word on Brevityp. 5
Key to the Icons Used in the Gamesp. 5
I Games
What I Likep. 10
What I Can Dop. 18
What I Observep. 21
You Games
Getting to Know Youp. 40
Understanding Youp. 49
Working with Youp. 55
We Games
Warming-up Games for the Groupp. 66
Cooperation Gamesp. 72
Integrating New Classmatesp. 83
Helping Gamesp. 93
Aggression Gamesp. 120
Adding More Imagination
Statue and Sculpting Gamesp. 146
Fairytale Gamesp. 159
Pantomime Playp. 167
Keyword Indexp. 173
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