Resource Share

At the PBPeople Trainer meeting that took place on 30th January 2013 a number of newly discovered resources were shared and some of these are ones that are not necessarily solely trainer resources so I thought it would be a good idea to share them with the PBPeople Community. Here they are:

'The Daily Mood' a flip-style desk stand with various emoticons. A new 'f' word learned was 'copacetic' which apparently means feeling A-OK and totally satisfied.


'Duck! Rabbit!' (Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld) This book illustrates how a young child's brain is programmed to see things from a different angle to older children and adults. This resource has been used to help practitioners and parents empathise with pre-school children in terms of understanding difficulties with seeing things from more than one perspective! Links can be made with the Feelings, Thoughts and Behaviour model and its use as a problem solving tool.

'How it is' publication by Triangle and the NSPCC. This resource provides 'an image vocabulary for children about feelings, rights and safety, personal care and sexuality and was produced using information provided by more than 100 people ranging from 20months to 20 years. For a free downloadable copy please visit www.howitis.org .

Free copies of resources in the Early Childhood Matters series are available from the Bernard van Leer Foundation website www.bernardvanleer.org . A recent publication is entitled Community violence and young children: making space for hope.

2 new posters have been produced by Warwickshire County Council and allow children to learn the correct anatomical language for body parts. Also available are sheets of stickers that celebrate various PB skills, such as 'I used my 'Early Warning Signs' please contact Ann Seal to order copies.

And finally (for now) the latest NSPCC advert which is extremely poignant in reinforcing Themes 1 & 2 and highlighting the need to listen to early warning signs and have people on a network who have the right qualities.


If any PBPeople with other PB consistent resources have anything new (or old) to share, I would love to see them.

Sally-Ann, these are really useful resources, thanks so much for sharing and giving a little description of each.

The NSPCC advert is really strong - they always pitch their messages perfectly. The text at the end gives that clear message to not wait -- it was shocking when that statistic came out last year from the NSPCC about how long people were waiting to be sure before reporting suspected abuse.

The Daily Mood book looks good too - I haven't used the word 'copacetic' for years. Would love to extend the PB vocabulary with my nursery children (happy and sad come up most of the time!).

Thank you again for sharing some new resources with everyone

Cheers Judith and so agree with you regarding the length of time it might take someone to 'protectively interrupt' on behalf of a child and that's where helping children to use the strategy of persistence can make a real difference just like 'Rabbit' in his story. If we can encourage people to keep telling until the 'early warning signs' disappear and tell again if they come back, things could change sooner.

Regarding teaching children more 'f' words I apply the PB principles to the 'If your happy and you know it' song by changing the first line of each verse to 'Feeling happy/sad/worried/excited' etc because a feeling is not what I am and adding the Makaton sign for 'feeling' and whatever feeling is chosen. Then when you get to the end of each line the children can come up with an 'appropriate' behaviour (one that respects their right to feel safe and that fact that other people have a right to feel safe too) which is the Feelings,Thoughts and Behaviour part of PBs all in a song :woohoo:

So how about:
Feeling happy and you know it clap your hands
Feeling happy and you know have a grin
Feeling happy and you know it and you really want to show it
Feeling happy and you know jump up and down!

Would love to hear what ideas the children come up with. In my experience they always remember and really like doing the sign for sad - not sure why though