I’mSpecial,I’mMe!

Let’s have a conversation...

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-About the title of the book: We can talk about the meaning of the word “unique.” We can ask our child about the qualities that make them special, and we can also remind them that they are special in our eyes

-About feelings and desires: We can follow the drawings, and we can talk with our child about the different situations of rejection that the hero of the story has been exposed to. We can ask them, for example: What roles did he want to play? What were the reactions of his friends? How did he feel? If you were him, how would you feel?

-About the supporting and empowering mother: Like a mirror, the mother reflected her child’s abilities, until he was able to see his own capabilities. Together with our children, we can follow the events when the mother was with her son. We can ask our child: How was his mother able to support him to overcome his bad feeling? What did she tell him? We can talk about situations in which our child felt our support.

-About group affiliation: With our child, we can recall a positive experience at home, school, or any other setting in which they felt part of a group. What contributed to making this experience positive?

-About the child’s beliefs and thoughts: The mother was cleverly able to change her child’s view of the roles that were imposed on him, and to expand and enrich his imagination and thus improve his feeling. We can compare the child’s beliefs and feelings before and after his mother’s intervention. We can ask our child: What was the child’s opinion of playing the role of a monkey instead of a lion in the beginning? What was he feeling? How did he change after talking to his mother? And how did he feel then?

-About situations of exclusion and rejection: The child was rejected in the story by his friends. We can have a conversation with our child about similar situations that happened to them and how they felt. Did anyone support them? Did they exclude anyone? Together, we can act out similar situations, and help the child deal with these situations in ways that enhance their self-confidence, sensitivity, and support for the rejected other.

Let’s create...

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-With our child, we can bring a jar for them and decorate it and put cards in it to write what distinguishes our child, and qualities we love about them, things they can do, things we like about their personality, and things we like to do with them. We can open the jar every day before bed, our child can choose a card that we can then read together and talk about.

-Let’s bring a mirror and decorate it with our child. We can look at it daily, talk to it, mention what we love about ourselves, why we are special. We can try to speak with confidence and pay attention to body language.

Let’s explore and play...

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-The children in the story have a wide imagination; Each time they played a different game and took on the role of different characters and traveled to the forest, to space, dived into the seas, visited castles, and fought dragons. We can search with our child for stories and books about these places, we can read them, and we may also act them out.