Building assets is elementary

"Children ages 8-12 are just beginning to come into their own, but they still need adults like you to offer them guidelines. With more than 50 easy-to-use group activities and kid-friendly activity sheets to photocopy, you can help the children in your youth group or classroom focus their thinking and priorities in a creative, fun way to explore the vital resources and relationships they need to grow up healthy and feel comfortable in the world." "Based on the highly popular Building Assets Together and More Building Assets Together for teens, this new book introduces the developmental assets to younger children and helps them support and encourage each other's effort to build assets for themselves and others as well. By participating in these activities, children will: develop the skills and sensitivities they need as they encounter new friendships and new conflicts, role-play to learn how to negotiate new limits to meet their expanding independence. recognize different forms of support and the people who are there for them. experience opportunities to exercise power and responsibility in safe, meaningful ways, build on their current interests as well as pursue new ones, examine their beliefs and identify healthy, empathetic choices, explore their identities and feel positive about their roles in the world. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.