Healing Hearts of Nature

Book excerpt: Healing Hearts of Nature includes five comprehensive fables that can assist children and their caretakers with some of the most commonly experienced problems during childhood such as: * bullying * low self-esteem * anger * rebelliousness * depression * inappropriate interpersonal relationships * single parenting * grief and others. The versatility of its fables makes this collection easy to understand and entertaining for children of all ages, and is appropriate for a wide range of applications, from serving as bedtime stories to providing parents, teachers, therapists, health care professionals, and other caretakers, a guide for prevention and management of childhood problems. Finally, not only does it help children to increase their coping and assertiveness skills, but also promotes healing, self-understanding, family cohesiveness, and open communication in a self-reflective and interactive manner.