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 Bob Neufeld |
Helping
Children Make Friends With Their Feelings How can children experience and express their feelings without hurting others, themselves or things they love? Bob Neufeld has developed a program which uses literacy strategies, children's books, puppets, movement activities and body awareness and teaches a radical new approach to helping children deal with their feelings, especially the troublesome feelings of anger and fear. This program is a two-tiered approach which combines a workshop for Parents and Educators called "Helping Children Make Friends with their Feelings" followed by a series of classroom sessions with primary school children. Bob is a retired teacher with 30 years of experience teaching Grades 1 to 8. After 3 one-hour sessions, one teacher at Lady Evelyn Alternative School observed some of her grade 1 children using some of Bob's presented strategies on their own to solve a classroom problem. The objectives of the "Helping Children Make Friends with their Feelings" program are that students learn : 1. That all feelings are okay. 2. To know what they are feeling when they feel it. 3. To locate feelings accurately in their bodies. 4. To link body and facial expressions to feeling states. 5. To communicate accurately and authentically about feelings. 6. To stay aware of feelings until they subside or change. 7. To increase the repertoire of expressive behavior 8. To increase the awareness of others. (Empathy) 9. To practice safely showing emotion without hurting themselves or others. 10. To take responsibility for regulating their own behaviour. |
