Kids’ Skills in Action

Want to know how you can harness children’s natural playfulness and enthusiasm to help them solve problems? Looking for some strategies for empowering children to embrace problems as opportunities to grow and learn? Then this book is for you!

Kid’s Skills in Action includes real-life conversations and stories about how human service workers have applied Ben Furman’s Kids’ Skills method in a range of real-life situations. The stories describe how this approach has helped children overcome difficulties and build the skills they need to work through future problems, from managing anger to overcoming fears, preventing bed-wetting to coping with divorce.

At the heart of Furman’s delightfully simple 15-step method is a reframing of children’s problems as skills yet to be learned. Whatever the culture and whatever the skills being learned, this method places the child at the centre of their own learning and invites them to become active participants in skill building and solution-finding.

The power of the Kids’ Skills method rests in Furman’s playful approach to working alongside children so that they themselves are their own best teachers, and adults—parents, carers, teachers, counsellors—are their support crew.

Kids’ Skills in action is a great resource for parents, primary and early childhood teachers, psychologists, counsellors, wellbeing teams, and parent support workers.

Paperback, 130mm x 200mm, 132 pages