Not your typical book for children.

More than a children’s book, it appeals to the readers, which I believe is an effective way of helping children imbibe the value of using kind words. This is teaching at the usual cognitive level when children can easily forget about it.

In relation to this, Kind Words, is an interactive book that can help kids explore their feelings in an in-depth manner. It poses questions like how a kid would feel when they receive kind words or mean words. Exploring such feelings are important in helping them understand why kindness is preferred over meanness in interacting with others.

I will let my daughter read it, and we will learn from the experience together.

Beautiful illustrations with an even lovelier take on the value kinds words bring.

I found an interesting variety of layout designs, so kids and parents won’t get bored. They will stay glued to the graphics the same way I did. I’m like a child at heart, and I enjoyed being a kid again when I checked the book out for my twins.

As an adult, I appreciated how the author included bullying as a pertinent topic. Sad to say that when I was still teaching in high school, I had to deal with the worst forms of bullying with my students. Of course, it wasn’t easy trying to appease both parties, so I realized that if any bullying program is to be effective, it must start as early as primary school. I plan to show this to Alex and Alexa’s preschool teacher as a suggested activity with the parents. The emphasis of the activity should be on how to ask for help in case bullying is experienced.

If you are looking for more in a children’s book, Kind Words certainly gives you so much more!

“Kind Words: the glue that helps keep us together” is full of treasures for a book. First off, it is full of examples that children can learn from as a foundation for formulating kind words on their own. It is specific on how to do it, how to say it, where, why, and how often.

However, it doesn’t stop there. You can see the author’s intention for the book is not only to scratch the surface, but to change society through the kids, parents, families, and significant others. It delves into the opposite side of the story that means words exist, and one should not feel guilty when these words are thrown at them. In fact, they should report the incident and ask for help.

You will learn a lot even as an adult through this book.

A productive activity for parents and kids to do together!

At first glance, I find the cover to be both child and adult-friendly with its neat, simple, and colorful artistry. But more importantly, the same holds true inside. I can see how kids and parents, or other adults can read it together and learn a lot from it. It presents you with different topics to discuss as well as thoughts and feelings to explore. In fact, I cannot wait to read it with my kids!

I need to express my admiration for the author, Jeni Davenport. I mean, she composed it at a child-friendly level, and in the end, you discover that Kind Words can fall under the bigger umbrella of how to prevent emotional abuse. I didn’t know that was what she was driving at initially, but she skillfully dealt with it in the book and made it fun for the kids. You could benefit from this book!

I like this book for children because the author is not afraid to go deep! I was reviewing it before giving it to my little niece, and I learned a lot myself. One day, she blurted some hurtful words at me, and I was shocked when she said that I don’t know anything. I didn’t know how to respond with her being mean, so I thought of reading a book with her.

This way, she wouldn’t feel like I was confronting her directly and allow her to open her feelings with me. I already shared the story with her mom, and she liked the method through the book. I realized that the issue within my niece might be deeper, and this would be a good start. A resource page for adults was provided at the end of the book, so I used it to help my niece further.

Kind Words offers a comprehensive approach to values integration. It covers both the good and the bad so that children would know how to deal with both courageously.

My takeaway from the book is that kind words are for kids to learn and for the adults to model and teach. Yes, kids can learn, but when the adults support that learning through modeling good behavior, that lesson becomes solid.

I especially appreciate that it involves everyone from the home to the school – everyone who plays a significant part in the lives of growing children – to reinforce learning. I strongly recommend it to those whose mission is to produce children who value kindness and abhor meanness.

Surprisingly, I found a soothing and heart-warming respite in this book for children.

There are many aspects of the book that I liked, but I particularly liked that it linked to the unity in the family, workplace, and society. In this way, more meaning and purpose is attached to saying kind words instead of saying it because it is what’s socially acceptable.

The author explicitly showed how kind words can act as the glue that will keep us together. It is comforting that we can do this if we work together because our love is what makes the world go round.

Great work by the emphatic author!

Kind Words is a profound book.

One solid strength of this book is presenting kind words versus not-so-kind words since it is an effective way of showing the pros and cons. It gives children a clear idea of how to distinguish kind words against mean words, so they know what to say more and what to avoid.
In addition, there was a section that checks how the family is on the use of mean words, and that jolted me on how I am as a parent at home. Sometimes as adults, we are not that conscious of our language, and it gets picked up by our kids. I needed that reminder to be more aware of how I say things and how it affects my kids.