Nightlights: Stories for You to Read to Your Child - To Encourage Calm, Confidence and Creativity

by Anne Civardi (Author), David Fontana (Author), Anne Civardi;Joyce Dunbar;David Fontana (Author), Joyce Dunbar (Author), David Fontana (Author), Anne Civardi (Author)

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  paperback
  

  $3.25

  Nightlights is a book of stories to read to children, but stories with a difference. It's a collection of twenty interactive meditation stories that have bene specially written to calm and relax your child at bedtime, while at the same time engaging and stimulating his or her imagination. These stories also help children in many other important ways. They help them to focus their minds and develop their powers of concentration and visualization, as well as learn more about emotions and feelings. Although not meditations in the strict sense, they do serve as a good preparation for learning real meditation later on. They also foster imagination and creativity, help children deal with their burgeoning anxieties, and help them take their first steps towards developing their own unique identity. In the Introduction, Civardi provides techniques to help parents develop their out-loud reading skills, shows how to create the right mood, and gives practical advice on how to talk with your child about what he or she has just heard. After each story, there is a brief list of affirmations which help to settle the message in the minds of both parent and child.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $5.02

  Make use of key skills, stories, illustrations and affirmations to help your child discover peace, creativity and confidence. This book, designed for parents to use with any child between the ages of 3 and 7, is a collection of 20 narrative-based meditations. Reading the stories aloud, we draw the child into adventures which fire their imagination. 15 of the meditations are beautiful stories aimed at helping children to focus their minds, release their worries, believe in themselves and trust in the world around them. The other 5 meditations sensitively tackle delicate issues facing small children, among them bereavement, nightmares and anxieties at school. Each of the meditations is both enjoyable, as a fantasy, and effective, as a gentle hand smoothing wrinkles from tiny furrowed brows.

• New

  paperback
  

  $14.08

  Nightlights is a book of stories to read to children, but stories with a difference. It's a collection of twenty interactive meditation stories that have bene specially written to calm and relax your child at bedtime, while at the same time engaging and stimulating his or her imagination. These stories also help children in many other important ways. They help them to focus their minds and develop their powers of concentration and visualization, as well as learn more about emotions and feelings. Although not meditations in the strict sense, they do serve as a good preparation for learning real meditation later on. They also foster imagination and creativity, help children deal with their burgeoning anxieties, and help them take their first steps towards developing their own unique identity. In the Introduction, Civardi provides techniques to help parents develop their out-loud reading skills, shows how to create the right mood, and gives practical advice on how to talk with your child about what he or she has just heard. After each story, there is a brief list of affirmations which help to settle the message in the minds of both parent and child.