A Boy and a Turtle: Relaxation/Stress Management bedtime story for children improve sleep, manage stress, anxiety [Paperback]

Lori Lite (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Visualization is an effective technique widely used for achieving sports goals, creating success and attaining wellness. Now children can follow A Boy and a Turtle as they fill their bodies with the colors of the rainbow. Colorful imagery quiets the mind and relaxes the body. Parents as well as children enjoy falling asleep while playing in the field of colors. Relax with colors!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A wonderful blend of color and visual imagery. Calming from head to toe". -- Blair Tate, PhD., School Psychologist

"The colors mad me feel happy all over." -- Carley, Age 8

"This is a beautiful story that helps children to relax at the end of their busy and stressful days". -- Susan Kent Cakars, Writer/Editor, Holt, Rinehardt and Winston

About the Author

Lori Lite is the author of four innovative children’s books and CD audio book designed to introduce children to relaxation and stress management. These ground breaking stories are the culmination of Lori’s experience as a Certified Children’s Meditation Facilitator, student of meditation and mother of three.

Lori’s unique style transcends all age limits! Children and adults benefit by experiencing fun, easy to do techniques of muscular relaxation, diaphragmatic/belly breathing, visualizations and affirmations.

Her commitment to children has inspired her to donate books to The IAM Foundation and Make a Wish Foundation. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Lori and her family sent 700 books to the children of NY to help them cope with the aftermath of 9/11.

Lori’s books are currently assisting child life specialists, parents, teachers, school counselors and yoga instructors across the United States and abroad. They are helping children through the hands of psychologists, special needs teachers, day care centers and head start programs. The Affirmation Web was named book of the month by The IAM Foundation and A Boy and a Bear is recommended by the Federal Emergency Management Association. Parents are raving about the impact the relaxation effect is having on their entire families.

Lori Lite is actively interviewing and writing articles for several media outlets around the country to include recent interviews with ABC Radio, Prevention Magazine, CBS News, USA Today Magazine and The New York Post. She has also been featured in several publications to include Parents Guide New York, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Parent Magazine and Children of the New Earth Magazine.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 15 pages
• Publisher: LiteBooks.net; 2 edition (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970863306
• ISBN-13: 978-0970863300
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,221,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy children's relaxation, October 28, 2004

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Susan Brown - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Boy and a Turtle: Relaxation/Stress Management bedtime story for children improve sleep, manage stress, anxiety (Paperback)

I am a stress consultant and work with children frequently. " A Boy and A Turtle" is the easiest, most effective way I have found to help children relax. This is one more "Winner" in the relaxation series created by Lori Lite. Her relaxation books and CD/Audio books all tell stories where the listener gets to follow along and implement proven relaxation technique with the characters.

Kids love relaxing with the rainbow in the story. I am amazed at how children learn the technique of visualization without a lesson. This is an excellent way for children to manage stress, anxiety and fears. This book is destined to become a classic bedtime story that will be relaxing children through the next millennium.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for Parents & Educators, September 18, 2006

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T. Hartley "MFWC" (Auburn, Maine United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Boy and a Turtle: Relaxation/Stress Management bedtime story for children improve sleep, manage stress, anxiety (Paperback)

First I will begin by listing the programs/CD's/books that I have purchased from Lite Books. 4 books: A Boy and a Bear, The Affirmation Web, A Boy and a Turtle and The Goodnight Caterpillar plus 5 audio CDs: Indigo Dreams, Indigo Ocean Dreams, Indigo Dreams: Garden of Wellness, Indigo Teen Dreams and Indigo Dreams: Adult Relaxation plus: Children's Stress Awareness Curriculum Designed for Youth Education.
Next I will say "THEY ARE ALL AMAZING!" For 9 years I worked as an advocate for children in a homeless shelter for women and children. I was constantly challenged with finding resources that were short, effective, and held the attention of the children. I was able to find resources but not all in one spot, I had to piece a little of this and a little of that to reach a fully rounded program that worked. The tools that Lori Lite created within each book and each CD offer short, highly effective programs that hold the attention of children. And best of all it is a package deal! You do not have to pull from any other program because the tools that she gives you are all you need. I am now an HHP and use the books and CD's when working with children of any age to simply give them powerful tools that they can use in daily life and hopefully carry into teen and adult hood. In my opinion Lite Books offer the best resources available to the health and wellness of children on the market. Within my own life I use the CD's as a nightly staple within the bedtime process of my children. They have not been able to stay awake long enough to finish even one of the stories on the CD yet. That is how relaxing the CD's are. For myself I have to stay sitting up when tucking them in and listening with them because if I get comfortable I am waking up in the middle of the night still in my kid's room! During daylight hours and when my children are well rested I have worked each session on the CD's with them from beginning to end. Now when they are feeling overwhelmed, frightened, angry etc... I will see them use the techniques they have learned through Loris programs, they move quickly from the negative feeling to a positive approach and positive result.
Lite Books offers professional and friendly customer service, with great shipping time. I am so grateful to have found this amazing resource and look forward to being one of their strongest professional advocates as well as personal customers!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Book for Kids, October 8, 2004

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Jacques (Montreal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Boy and a Turtle: Relaxation/Stress Management bedtime story for children improve sleep, manage stress, anxiety (Paperback)

I am so pleased with this book and heard great things about the other books that Lori Lite has written.

A Boy and a Turtle helped teach my child to visualize the things he wants to create in his life. He is very active in sports and this book has helped him develop his skills and mental game. Before each game he pictures in his mind the thing he wants to achieve during the game. He sees the success he is going to have and knows that his mind is so powerful that his body just performs the way he wants it to.

Last week he hit a grand slam and told me after the game that he visualized hitting the ball over the fence. Its amazing! Other parents are asking how he has made so much improvement and I am torn whether to let them in on our secret.

I just had to thank Lori Lite for writing these amazing books. I and my son are huge fans!