By Jerry Wilde and Polly Wilde. This succinct guide provides solid advice to counselors, teachers, and parents on how to help children develop that essential life skill—patience. Using the authors' research-based strategies, concerned adults can teach kids to cope with frustration and anger, improve school performance, get along with others, and accept disappointment. Patience-building techniques detailed in the book include using self-talk and being aware of anger body cues. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the central points. Grades K–6. Index. Source notes. LGR. 96 pages. ©1999.
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