1st Edition
I Just Can’t Decide!: Exploring the Challenge of Making Choices
To get the full Being With Our Feelings experience, this book can be purchased alongside the guidebook. All books can be purchased together as a set, Being With Our Feelings: Guidebook and Four Storybooks Set, 978-0-367-77231-4.
This colourful, engaging, gender neutral story, introduces the reader to a child overwhelmed with all of life’s choices. Should they sit with their friends or befriend someone new? Should they share what they know or keep it to themselves? Should they listen to their heart or follow the crowd?
Written with honesty and a clear youth voice, I Just Can’t Decide!:
- looks at the challenge of making choices
- champions the courage to make your own choices
- promotes listening to your heart, intuition and body, in addition to your mind
- teaches children about conscious behaviour and self-reflection
- explores ideas of integrity, values and right action
- ends with a mindful reflection, to help children explore and be with their feelings.
This book is essential reading for teachers, parents, or anyone working with children, who wishes to empower young people to make good choices, with sensitivity and self-awareness.
Biography
Anita Kate Garai is a teacher, poet and mindfulness wellbeing consultant and facilitator, with a BEd Hons from Cambridge University and an Advanced Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts. She has been a primary school classroom teacher for over 25 years, leading on personal, social and emotional development, and has worked with local authorities as a specialist in behaviour, emotional wellbeing and creativity, developing programmes for pupils and delivering training to school communities. Anita can be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at @AnitaKateG.
‘Immensely appealing…’
Adrian Bethune, Author of Wellbeing In The Primary Classroom, Education Policy Co-Lead at The Mindfulness Initiative, Teacher and founder of Teachappy.‘Vivid illustrations and wonderful poetry’
Adrian Bethune, Author of Wellbeing In The Primary Classroom, Education Policy Co-Lead at The Mindfulness Initiative, Teacher and founder of Teachappy.‘I love these books! The stories and illustrations are just beautiful.’
Penny Whelan, SENCO, Luton.‘Beautifully illustrated.’
Andrew Cowley, Wellbeing Speaker and Writer, author of ‘The Wellbeing Toolkit’ and ‘The Wellbeing Curriculum’.‘The Red String…will resonate with any young person who has felt a build up of emotion.’ Andrew Cowley, Wellbeing Speaker and Writer, author of ‘The Wellbeing Toolkit’ and ‘The Wellbeing Curriculum’.
‘Written with a strong youth voice element running through.’
Sharon Mee, Creativity and Wellbeing in Education Developer, CEO and Founder of Artpod and Melting Pot - Arts and Wellbeing in Education, Sussex and South East.‘Unique and very honest.’
Sharon Mee, Creativity and Wellbeing in Education Developer, CEO and Founder of Artpod and Melting Pot - Arts and Wellbeing in Education, Sussex and South East.‘Love the gender neutral characters…Fabulous!’
Gaynor Price, SEMH Advisory Teacher, City of Birmingham School.
