Raising Happy and Active Children in Society

Participating in social activities and doing group work is a situation that will sooner or later involve all children. As children reach preschool and school age, they must be able to participate in groups and carry out collective activities.

One of the disorders that prevents children from successfully participating in group activities is anger when things don’t go right. Group work usually has its ups and downs that don’t occur in individual tasks; just as doing things in a group has advantages that doing them alone does not.

Children should learn how to overcome their feelings and emotions when cooperating. This can be taught to them through a children’s poem. The book ‘My Resilience is Stronger Than You’ tells a story in the form of an engaging poem with lovely illustrations for children.

A boy named Nick finds a cabin in a forest and decides to repair it with his friends. But things not going right and problems that arise in group work make him angry and discourage him from continuing the work. Nick gradually realizes that he gets angry about everything; for example, if he forgets the answer to a science question or his friends’ forgetfulness makes him anxious and angry.

Finally, his mother teaches him how to overcome his anger. The end of the book contains a message for parents, providing explanations about the feeling of anger in children, and exercises to increase children’s understanding of this emotion are also found at the end of the book.

‘My Resilience is Stronger Than You’ was written by Elizabeth Cole and translated into a children’s poem by Rudabeh Hamzei. Mehrsa Publications has also made it available to interested parties for 98,000 Tomans.