Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour (Storytelling)

I love the premise of this book. It is such a healthy and nurturing way to be with, to discipline and to lead our children. I am a mother of three girls, one very fiery- we butt heads a lot. I haven't had time to read the whole book yet, but I skimmed and perused and got the gist of it, and put it into action today! My three year old was screaming at me for something (a regular occurrence) and so suddenly (remembering "Healing Stories..") I asked her if I had ever told her the story of Screamy Mimi. She quieted instantly and all ears perked up. I told a story, using what I had learned, about a little girl who screamed at everyone instead of talking and so no one could understand what she was saying. Anyway, she finds an owl in the forest who teachers her how to communicate in a way that people will listen and finds great friendship and happiness. No more screaming! Today at least :) The wisdom is invaluable, I can see this book as possibly the defining outside source of my parenting style (along with Simplicity Parenting, of course). Highly recommended.

If you've read "Hunt, Gather, Parent" and wanted more ideas for storytelling in your parenting...this is the next step! You'll get a lot of inspiration for how to create a story and see lots of samples for challenging behavior. It's a great book!

I bought the kindle edition a few days ago and cannot put the book down. The stories that the book contain are wonderful but that is only the beginning of it. Susan had laid out in a clear and exiting way both her development with story teller as an educator, mother and healer. The way she describes how she creates the stories is magnificent both in its simplicity and depth. It is inspiring to learn about the success stories of how the stories helped different children and adults, in fact saved them in certain instances. The kindle edition is great. It is also easy to navigate around the book, what I did was, jump to a story with just search of the title and then going back with a book mark.

So helpful for Waldorf teacher in younger years and through the grades

I am always looking for good stories for my son (3 years old) - He is so quick to internalize and begin imitating stories I give him that I want each one to be worthy of our time and his attention. This book is FULL of wonderful short stories for nap time or bed time. We have never had a book before without pictures, but ever since I opened this one, he has not wanted to go back to his picture books. He enjoys imagining the scenes in his mind as I read. I appreciate that the book is divided into topics (stories for situations a child may be facing, such as feeling shy, clinging to mom, being uncooperative, feeling impatient). Also, the stories are prefaced with a guide for what is age-appropriate. I can tell that we will be using this book not just now but well into his 7th or 8th year.

What a great collection of stories! There really is something soothing in her stories that resonates with my children. It pains me to take a star off of my review as it is no reflection on Susan Perrow's work, but on how the Kindle edition is set up. The Kindle edition is only organized by chapters, without subchapters listing all the stories within each section. So all the wonderful stories in this book not listed at all! So, if one is looking for a particular tale to tell, it can be very challenging to find what you are looking for. Say I wish to read her story The Light Princess. I can only find this by searching for keywords, but 'light' & 'princess' appear many times in the book. So I have to strategically remember another another element or phrase from the story that won't likely be in another story. Frustrating e-book, but wonderful book. I'd recommend a paper copy of this book unless a revised Kindle version is released.

Simply lovely! 'Healing Stories for Challenging Behavior' is tailored to help children and parents in the best possible way, by creating an environment of better understanding through story-telling. For many parents story-telling is not easy. However, Susan Perrow has set out to make it much easier and much more rewarding. She provides a step-by-step story-telling guide and introduces the reader to her own excellent stories, as well as stories from around the world that will help families to soothe hurt feelings and solve problems. The book inspires imagination and offers practical ideas on how to deal with challenging behavior. Wholeheartedly recommended!

Love this book. The title is deceptive (I think) and this is my only critical remark on it. If you could only buy one book on storytelling to children, this would be it. This is not only about storytelling but gives actual stories that are unique and easy/fairly easy to memorize. And the children love them. I ignored this book for months because of the title, since I didn't have "problem" children or behaviour problems to speak of. But once I actually looked into the book I saw that there was much more here than what the title incurred. I recommend this to anyone serious about teaching or raising healthy children through the wonder of storytelling.

Recommend by the school, there are some very nice relaxing bedtime stories. It stimulates emotional intelligence

Really worth it! Good to read out to kids :)

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with children between 3 and 8. I've used a few of the stories on my children and my childcare kids and they yield immediate results, far more effective in affirming positive behavior and correcting negative behavior than any other parenting method I've used, I was impressed. I found it better to tell the story to the children instead of read it. The book is beautifully written and to the point, I love how every story comes with a guide on how it can be used.

Love this book has great stories and information

I got this book for my four year old daughter about a month ago. She has asked for stories from it every night since. They are stories with a deeper meaning and are joyous to read over and over again. Not the usual bland story, but unique, magical and almost mystical. They leave you wanting to read more, think more and often my daughter has brought forward some meaning which I hadn't seen. It is lovely to see what she interprets from and already has favorites which she requests depending on how she is feeling that day. Highly recommend to anyone who wants more from a story.