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The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe, and Get Along

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Ms. Drew's book is NOT just for kids. In the book, she explains how people can resolve conflict by using some simple and elegant techniques. In addition, the book is written for people ages 11 to 114. The book borrows mostly from the practice of Mediation. Mediation is a form of conflict resolution which uses a Neutral Mediator who helps parties come to a mutually acceptable agreement to end their dispute.

The literature of Mediation is filled with academic treatises using legal and Sociological words which make them often difficult for a regular person to read and integrate. Ms. Drew specifically did NOT write that type of book. Her book teaches concepts and methods by which people can help solve problems that are meaningful to them and others.

In doing so, Ms. Drew uses some special writing ability and her vast experience as a recognized expert in Peer Mediation and School Conflict Resolution. She writes her book in a vernacular using regular words to describe what she is telling the reader. She uses ethnic names of all nationalities to convey that all people can do this type of work, and all people are worthy of respect. She most effectively uses real life examples and information that she gathered from her work and from her survey of Middle School children all over the country. And she reaffirms the belief that everyone is hurt by conflict and everyone can help to fix that problem in society.

It is rare that readers come across a book that gives this much affirmation and assistance in regular life, and is suited for virtually all people in such a vast age range. The book is recommended for almost everyone who has an interest in helping reduce the amount of conflict in the world today. Not just big conflicts like wars, but also regular conflicts that we face everyday as people.

This book is truly a fine example of how people can take their own power and help not only themselves, but those all around them. All who have the wish to reduce pain and hurtfulness in society should read this book.

The Kids' Guide To Working Out Conflicts: How To Keep Cool, Stay Safe, And Get Along is a self-help guide for kids and teens to learning basic social skills. From keeping one's cool when teased, to staying safe in threatening situations, dealing with sexual harassment, learning how to disagree and get along, self-tests, conflict logs, and much more. Assorted useful forms for tracking and monitoring one's progress add a useful interactive aspect, and humorous caricatures, stories and survey results from kids themselves, and a friendly, no-nonsense tone enhance the highly palatible and simple to assimilate lessons. Overall, The Kids' Guide To Working Out Conflicts is a practical resource to learning how to deal with real life situations effectively, and highly recommended to readers of all ages.

As a guidance counselor, this book, along with the companion version for
instructors provides a good resource to assist students with a major portion
of their problems that prodominately have conflict at the core. This is a
good resource for anyone working with children.

As the parent of a middle schooler on the autistic spectrum, this book is a vital resource in helping kids to learn the social skills needed in todays often stressful school enviornment.

I received a lot of practical help from this book such as, things to say and do. I really like the way the book was set up with an easy format for finding the problem and it's solution. Lots of good hints, often taken from real children. It's a great reference book for the growing up years.

We have been using this with the Leaders Guide in our afterschool program for Middle Schoolers grades 5 - 8 and it is wonderful. The topics are framed in a way that kids can relate to. I recommend it!