Every Kid's Guide to Decision Making and Problem Solving

Berry, Joy Wilt

ISBN 10: 0516214101 ISBN 13: 9780516214108

Publisher: Childrens Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Age Level: 6-12
The Living Skills books are a series of 27 books by award-winning author Joy Berry. Like all of the Joy Berry books, this series stresses individual responsibility. The purpose is to help kids develop into self-sufficient, intelligent, independent thinking young adults. The books in the Joy Berry “classics” have sold over 85 million copies and helped hundreds of thousands of parents and kids over the past twenty years.

We all make hundreds of decisions every day—some rather insignificant and some that can be life-changing. In Every Kid’s Guide to Decision Making and Problem Solving, Joy Berry lays the groundwork for making good decisions and solving problems. She talks about the process and gives specific advice on how to approach any decision or problem. Topics include:
what a decision is,
three guidelines for making good decisions,
six steps for making good decisions,
reasons for making your own decisions,
what a problem is, and
six steps for solving problems.

The book features colorful cartoons on every page that both amuse and engage the reader.

The 27 books in the Living Skills series are:
Being Special
Coping With Childhood Traumas
Being a Communicator
Responding to Danger
Decision Making and Problem Solving
Handling Family Arguments
Family Rules and Responsibilities
Handling Fights with Brothers or Sisters
Good Manners
Handling Disagreements
Handling Feelings
Understanding Human Rights
Handling Illness
Intelligent Spending
The Juvenile Justice System
Laws That Relate to School and Work
Laws that Relate to Kids in the Community
Laws that Relate to Parents and Children
Making Friends
Making and Managing Money
Understanding Nightmares
Nutrition and Health Care
Overcoming Prejudice and Discrimination
Understanding Parents
Thinking and Learning
Using Time Wisely
Watching TV Intelligently

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Reviews

Grade 3-4 Good intentions can't redeem these two attempts at bibliotherapy. Every Kid ' s Guide to Decision Making is the better of the two, mainly because it is more focussed. It hardly seems appropriate, however, to show one child calling another ``you jerk'' because of a ``stupid decision'' when children have been told prior to this to avoid doing anything that might hurt another person physically or mentally. Every Kid ' s Guide to Watching TV Intelligently begins by discussing the negative aspects of TVhardly the best way to win a child's attention. Although the book offers some good points about the harmful aspects of commercials, some of the many blanket statements are too simplistic and many are unrealistic. Maintaining that a child should watch only TV shows in which crime never wins over law and order hardly seems the best way to help a child cope with the realities of our world. The text is littered with professional jargon, and few children will care if TV can ``stimulate interesting conversations'' or if it shows ``crime and violence in proper perspective.'' In both books, the cartoon illustrations are colorful, but they are cluttered with ballooned remarks that often do more to overwhelm the text than to clarify it. There is a definite need for good values materials in libraries, but librarians should not sacrifice quality to meet a need. Lori A . Janick, Parkwood Elementary School, Pasadena, Tex.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Childrens Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0516214101
• ISBN 13: 9780516214108
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 48