(Part 2) Best difficult discussions books for children according to redditors

I see that this is solved, but if you liked this book, there is one I loved when I was a kid called The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright that you might also enjoy.

A normal well adjusted person in society will always give a person the benefit of the doubt.

Obviously you may be struggling with the first bit, I'm not surprised though, you are definitely showing the signs such as playing WoW in 2018.

Anyway, here's a book that might help you. The Growing Up Book for Boys: What Boys on the Autism Spectrum Need to Know!

A couple other books to recommend for this age - Always Remember, The Memory Tree, The Invisible String, and Cry, Heart, But Never Break. There's a new one called Death is Stupid that might really resonate with him, but I'd preview it first. You can also try a kids grief activity book like Help Me Say Goodbye or When Someone Very Special Dies.

Twenty and Ten

I doubt this is the book you're looking for, but I'll give it a shot.
Twenty and Ten by Bishop, Claire H?
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Ten-Puffin-story-books/dp/0140310762
Published about 31 years ago

A group of crows is called a murder...

A group of owls is called a parliament...

and my favorite, a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance!

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thanks for the contest!!

Ooh that one looks great! I teach first grade so have a ridiculous list of all the books I plan on aquiring. Here’s one I love!

Awesome! I work more with PTSD rather than grief, but it often overlaps. I imagine you'll be getting training prior to starting with whatever assessment tools your agency uses, but I recommend reading up on TF-CBT, which is a great modality for trauma treatment with kiddos. I also really love this workbook for grief. My agency has a scanned copy so we can just print it off when necessary, so if yours doesn't have this I really recommend buying it and scanning the pages!

Hope this is helpful :) Good luck!!

We could go into specifics about the terrible that lurks here. I work in a used bookstore and this was always the creepiest title for me to see.

With school starting please run to your local library and get

Stand Tall Mary Lou Mellon by Patty Lovell

https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Tall-Molly-Lou-Melon/dp/0399234160

Ah, Sandy, the left-handed Jew. Everybody must find this book and read it in the Brooklyn accent in which is was written. That book is GOLD.

I remember reading a book that has always stuck with me called Homeless Bird. It's about an Indian child bride who is married off to a sick boy & then abandoned. This is where I also learned about bride burning. It won the National Book Award. I read a book a day when I was little & I don't remember many of them yet this one sticks out, 20 years later. For good reason.

It may have been Don't Ever Get Sick at Granny's, a book in his Ghost of Fear Street series.

R.L. Stine also did the Ghosts of Fear Street series at the same time as Goosebumps and they were pretty similar - there's one called Don't Ever Get Sick at Granny's with this premise.

Everlost?

https://www.amazon.com/Everlost-Skinjacker-Trilogy-Neal-Shusterman/dp/1501238418

Nope :( The cover was similar to Neil Shusterman's Everlost series.

I think it's really normal at 4-5 for kids to be thinking about sameness and differentness and try to make sense of what they see.

The approach I take--after a lot of thought and research--is to teach and talk about skin color the same way we would about eye color or hair color. There are some good books that talk about the science of skin color - First Encyclopedia of the Human Body touches on it--my kid is obsessed with that book, All the Colors We Are takes a matter of fact and scientific approach. The book Children Just Like Me is another really useful resource when talking about different cultures and people.


I've also made a point to buy black, brown and Asian baby dolls and Barbies (not just the standard white ones) since she was about 2. At first I felt really self-conscious about doing this, but I think it's helped her see variety as the norm instead of thinking of her whiteness as normal and everything else as "other."

At this stage, that's the message you want to be instilling - everyone has lots of differences and they're all pretty darn normal and cool.

And finally--how to deal with loud kid comments in public. A few days ago my daughter shouted and pointed, "LOOK MOMMY! A little person!!! THAT'S NOT A KID!" I was embarrassed and felt bad and I told her in the moment that it's not nice to yell out people's differences because it might make them feel like everyone is looking at them--she got that--attention can be embarrassing.

When we got home we talked about dwarfism just like hair color or normal height -- it's something about you that get when you're born. I think I said something like, "even if a person is born to be a little person, their brain grows up just like yours or mine as they get older and when they're grown ups they have jobs and families just like any other grownup." She thought it was really really cool.

I'm sure she'll do it to me again. I don't know if there's a better way to handle it in the moment to be more respectful of others--but my main focus is trying to get a message of inclusiveness to my kid.

I dunno. This stuff is hard.

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Homeless Bird?

I love the penny books <3 Made buying school books less painful. Uuuh, this is one of my favorite books but I lent out my copy and it never made its way back to me.

Awesome contest!

Tangerine is one of my all time favourites. one of the first books i ever read. (shout out to the school book fair) Have you read Crusader by Edward Bloor? not as good as tangerine but entertaining none the less.

Might also want to try On My Honor

I think I may know this one... was it like a novel children's book or one with pictures and big text?

EDIT: Was it Stand Tall, Molly LouMelon?

Came here to post this:

http://www.amazon.com/Henrys-Freedom-Box-Underground-Railroad/dp/043977733X

It has reached "beloved" status in the picture book world. Great story!

Added yesterday! Not sure if I'm linking this correctly but http://www.amazon.com/Henrys-Freedom-Box-Underground-Railroad/dp/043977733X/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=6ATZZU7BRZN1&coliid=I28ILSRXXRAYWR is 12.36 =] Also, can someone tell me how to make the link just say the words I want to it say instead of the entire link? If that makes any sense...

so it goes
Trouble's Daughter because I read it when I was a teenager and it completely changed the way I thought about culture and acceptance. I know it seems silly, but I have always wanted my own copy so that I could one day let my (possible) children read it so it will have the same effect on them. It also sparked my love of historical fiction and Native American history. I recently finished My Mother's Secret and Angela's Ashes (for like the ump-teenth time) and am currently reading A Game of Thrones and The Caged Graves.

https://www.amazon.com/You-Never-Heard-Sandy-Koufax/dp/0553498428

>No, but some need to subscribe to better access to news sources instead of complaining there’s no coverage on Reddit.

No they don't. Your opinion on peoples' news agglomeration and posting is silly.

>And then there are those that feel their time is better spent disagreeing with others pointing that out, and make feeble attempts at them being inferior in doing so.

Yep. I think you're riding a high horse bred in ignorance and pointlessness, and so I said so. And that's okay.

>No flash cards necessary.

Whewboy, we're getting there, but this might do you some good: https://www.amazon.com/Every-Bodys-Different-Childrens-Understanding-ebook/dp/B01N2OZUFM