Gold medal winner, Mom\'s Choice Awards Silver medal, 2016 Nautilus Awards 2nd place, Picture Books ages 6 & older, 2016 Purple Dragonfly Award Honorable Mention, EUREKA Excellence in Children\'s Nonfiction Award Winner of a 2016 Family Choice Award When a bee stings, Ouch That hurts When your finger gets caught in a closing door, that hurts a lot.
Nadal, PhD, provides more information about microaggressions, and strategies for talking to children about Hurtful language, discrimination, and bias..
A Note to Parents and Caregivers by Kevin L.
Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways explains these ouch moments in kid-friendly terms, offers practical strategies for what kids can do to help, and empowers kids to stand up to mean and Hurtful language.
However, they need guidance, mentoring, and modeling from adults to understand the impact of their Words and behaviors.
Young people have a wonderful capacity to care about each other.
Children likely are not trying to be hurtful; they may just be repeating Words that they have heard in the past and may not realize the discriminatory connotations.
For instance, When children use Words like lame or gay to mean that something is bad, weird, or different, they communicate a message that having a disability or being part of LGBT community is equal to being bad, weird, or different.
Microaggressions or ouch moments, as they are referred to in the story, are brief exchanges where an indignity, insult, or slight is expressed--whether intentionally or not--from one person to another.
When other kids say something mean or hurtful, it is hard to know what to do.
Hearing a mean or Hurtful word hurts a lot, too.
Gold medal winner, Mom\'s Choice Awards Silver medal, 2016 Nautilus Awards 2nd place, Picture Books ages 6 & older, 2016 Purple Dragonfly Award Honorable Mention, EUREKA Excellence in Children\'s Nonfiction Award Winner of a 2016 Family Choice Award When a bee stings, Ouch That hurts When your finger gets caught in a closing door, that hurts a lot
