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What do you do with a problem

Text: Kobi Yamada

This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn’t so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared.

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Our children face many problems that concern them, and they often do not find or know how to deal with them, which creates a sense exhaustion. This wonderful book, with its drawings, embodies to us what our child feels when faced with a problem; They often see this problem as hanging over their ...

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Dear Parents,

This book encourages us to look closely at problems and discover the opportunities that lie within them. What are we to do with the problem, especially if it haunts us and preoccupies us? Do we worry? Do we ignore it? Do we run and hide from it?

Our children face many problems that concern them, and they often do not find or know how to deal with them, which creates a sense exhaustion. This wonderful book, with its drawings, embodies to us what our child feels when faced with a problem; They often see this problem as hanging over their heads, and they experience feelings of anxiety, fear, and sometimes difficulty breathing.

On one hand, this book presents the questions and confusions that come to the mind of the child, but on the other hand, it also deals with ways to deal with these problems and tells us that every problem is an opportunity for learning, growth, and courage. The book gives us the tools to conduct a dialogue with our children and accompany them in dealing with the problems they face.

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  • Let’s have a conversation
  • About the title: We can read the title with our children and ask them: What do they think we can do with a problem? We hear and listen to them and continue our reading of the book.
  • About the plot: having a dialogue about the plot enables our child to understand the book and then proceed to infer the information between the lines. We can trace the drawings and talk with our child about various events. For example, we can ask them: What happened to the child? How did he feel? The problem is depicted in the drawing as a black cloud. What do they think could be that problem he faced? How did it happen? How do they deal with it? What happened when he ignored her and kicked her out? And what happened when he encountered her? What did he discover then?
  • About feelings and thoughts: The drawings express various feelings beautifully. We can follow the drawings with our children and ask about each event: how did the child feel? What was he thinking? What did he desire? We can call feelings and thoughts by their names: confusion when the problem arose; anger; anxiety; fear... We can also ask: Why did the child have this feeling?
  • About our thoughts: What thoughts did the child have? We can list them with our children: “What would happen if you swallowed me?” “What if I took all my things?” We can ask the child: Are these things really possible? and how? Have they ever thought this way? when? how did they feel?
  • About solving problems and getting out of a problem: We can ask our child: What is meant by “to face the problem”? What is meant by “inside my problem there is an opportunity hiding?” We can ask our child: Did they ever get into trouble? How did they feel? How did they get out of it? Who helped them? What did they learn from that experience? We can involve our child in ways of solving problems: we can determine the reason for the problem, then we can determine what the problem is, and then we can put possible solutions to it and determine what the consequences are of each solution, and on this basis, we can choose the best solution.
  • About child empowerment: Children rely on their abilities, positive experiences, and past successes in dealing with problems. We can remind our children of previous experiences in which they were able to overcome problems and difficulties, and we can talk about the qualities and things that helped them to overcome the problem and face it.
  • Let’s act
  • We can write a scenario of many problems with our children that they may fall into, and we can rehearse the things that they can say to themselves and do to face the problems, such as: getting lost in the mall; being bullied; having trouble with a friend, when a stranger knocks on the door and the parents are not at home... We can act with our children and take on the different characters. We can talk about our feelings, thoughts, and actions.
  • Let’s enrich our language
  • The book is rich in beautiful and new linguistic vocabulary. We can explain them to our children while reading and we can talk about it afterwards as well, such as: I am facing a problem; I ignore it; I crept in; camouflage; opportunity. We can use these words in our daily lives to become part of our child’s linguistic dictionary.

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