Alfie loves his mommy’s cookies, and he wants one more than anything! But grabbing for one, fishing for one, and dressing up as a cookie inspector don’t seem to work. His mommy says there is a better way. What is it? Beginning readers will learn proper manners with Alfie as his mommy teaches him to say the magic words.
Age Group: The kindergarten
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GeneralThis is a beautiful story in which a lovely relationship, based on conscious parenting, emerged between a mother and her child. The story smoothly deals with modelling methods for developing life skills and promoting social and emotional development, in addition to problem solving skills.
Social skills need daily practice and mediation so that the child can acquire and internalize them; The child needs clarifications about the methods of proper communication, first in the family social context, so that he can utilize them during his social communication outside the house. This can be done by using gentle language and by explaining proper behaviour and appropriate verbal communication of children in social contexts. This language refers to the use of social vocabulary, such as “please” and “thank you,” and its use at home, so that the child can later make it accessible and use it outside the house. Social behaviours and social skills should be part of our daily practice as it takes some time to acquire them.
The book also provides us with a model to create an opportunity for our children to deal with problems, motivate them to think of solutions and support them in finding them. The skill of problem solving is an important skill, and we, as parents, must support our children in practicing it, by creating opportunities, as Alfie’s mother did when she asked him to think of a way to get the cake, and thus she motivated him to use his creativity and thinking. When he couldn’t find the solution himself, she gave him a hint by modelling the desired behaviour and without underestimating the child’s attempts. And so, the child finally found the solution on his own and got the cake.
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Year of Distribution:
2022-2023
