Lesson 4Online Resources

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Some of the books that we really have written about, there's a book, there's Sophie and there's Snuffle Bunny 2. There's a book that's Only You, which is really about care and relationships. And we found that really helps. Jamaica Tagalong, which is mentioned here, is a book about sibling rivalry. Siblings. And then we found that there was not a book for preschoolers, for older toddlers and preschoolers around maternal depression.

So we wrote a book called When My Mom Is Sad. Now, all this is publicly available. You can download When My Mom Is Sad. We have the book guides. We have lessons learned. We have some additional resources that you can use with each book. And I wanted to mention all of those. There's one more thing about the, so again, using books to read to kids is great. What we also have, though, in the Tell Me a Story packet is we have the workshop for parents.

And one of the most fun and amazing things is to do a workshop. Parents bring their kids. And you do the same thing with them, with the parents and their children that you would do with the teacher in the classroom. And you show the parents again, this is like what we would do with circle time. And some of the dialogue is just so amazing. And again, you can substitute almost any book.

Native American communities, and those communities have really pulled really important cultural and historical books that they've used. I know that with a number of the Latino communities with whom I've worked, we've read a number of these books in Spanish and other books that are really more specific to that community. Other some of the books that are there and that's really important i do see that yolanda saying that teachers are often caught off guard they don't know how to respond and sometimes they will share the stories with students one-on-one and that's really important and this teacher by the way did stop me you know afterwards and And I mean, I went and was going to talk to her anyway.

It's like, what do I do? And we did follow up with that child and actually got in touch with mom and offered to have a conversation. And she really chose and wanted to do that. She was very frightened. We also helped her think about being in a safe place and put her in touch with the domestic violence. Counselor and shelter. And I know that then dad did get out of jail and actually got some counseling.

And I believe the family was reunited. So those were issues.