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Choose one or two of these ideas to explore
with your child:
- Get your child to try some movement in a
safe space, to contrast feeling brave and feeling scared. For
example, encourage your child to try marching like a brave soldier
with head and knees high. Then ask them to run quickly and hide
like a tiny scared mouse.
- Talk about the issue of bullying, as raised
in the elephant story. Help your child to realise that it is important
to tell an adult about bullying or other threatening behaviour
and that this is not 'telling tales'.
- Encourage your child to try out new experiences.
Set tasks which challenge, but which are achievable, so that your
child gradually becomes confident and independent. Some children
will need to progress in small steps rather than big leaps!
- Find stories about characters who are brave.
Include traditional stories, such as the Aesop's fable about the
lion and the mouse.
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