Michael Genhart

Ouch Moments (eBook, ePUB)

When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways
Illustrator: Garofoli, Viviana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ouch Moments shows kids who is affected by hurtful words: the target, the mean kid, and bystanders. Microaggressions or "ouch moments," as they are referred to in the story, are brief exchanges where an indignity, insult, or slight is expressed-whether intentionally or not-from one person to another. For instance, when children use words like "lame" or "gay" to mean that something is bad, weird, or different, they communicate a message that having a disability or being part of LGBT community is equal to being bad, weird, or different. Children likely are not trying to be hurtful; they may just be repeating words that they have heard in the past and may not realize the discriminatory connotations. Young people have a wonderful capacity to care about each other. However, they need guidance, mentoring, and modeling from adults to understand the impact of their words and behaviors. Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways explains these "ouch moments" in kid-friendly terms, offers practical strategies for what kids can do to help, and empowers kids to stand up to mean and hurtful language.

A Note to Parents and Caregivers by Kevin L. Nadal, PhD, provides more information about microaggressions, and strategies for talking to children about hurtful language, discrimination, and bias. Excerpt: When a bee stings, Ouch! That hurts!

When your finger gets caught in a closing door, that hurts a lot.

Hearing a mean or hurtful word hurts a lot, too. When other kids say something mean or hurtful, it is hard to know what to do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
• Altersempfehlung: ab 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433819636
• Artikelnr.: 66381406

Autorenporträt

Michael Genhart, PhD