Hands Are Not for Hitting Board Book

By Martine Agassi

Book Overview

A Children's Guide To Non-Violent Behavior

It's good to lend a helping hand... not a hitting one With easy-to-understand words and vibrant illustrations, toddlers learn why hitting is never okay as well as how to manage their anger and impulses with alternatives like walking away or talking to someone.

Teaches Positive Alternatives to Hitting: This reassuring children's book helps toddlers learn safe ways to handle frustration, anger, and big emotions through calming strategies, communication, and positive choices.Shows All the Helpful Things Hands Can Do: From drawing and building to waving, helping, hugging, and playing, children discover fun, caring ways to use their hands without hurting others.Includes Helpful Tips for Parents & Caregivers: Hands Are Not for Hitting features additional guidance and social emotional learning activities in the back of the book that reinforce empathy, emotional regulation, kindness, and non-violent behavior at home or in the classroom.

Best Behavior(R) Series: Kids, parents, and educators love the award-winning book series that teaches children ages 1-4 important life skills in fun, relatable ways. From managing emotions to manners for kids, each book in the series uses simple words and relatable illustrations that encourage positive behaviors. Bilingual board books are available for select titles.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157542200X
• ISBN13: 9781575422008
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 1 to 4 years
• Grade Range: Preschool

Customer Reviews

Reinforcing behavior

It’s a great book about teaching children not to hit and it’s fun enough that they will come back again.

Hitting Hands

I purchased this book for my 22 month old who has learned that hitting is an "effective" way to get his big brother's attention. My son is fascinated with this book and obviously gets the message. We have a few other books from this series and love them.

It worked for us

I bought this book because my 2-year-old little girl was hitting me on occasion. We read it together, and she loved it right away. We read it a few times a day for several days, and I noticed a difference in her behavior from the get-go. If she hit or if she looked like she was going to, I would just tell her, "Hands are not for hitting" just like the book says. I would say her hitting decreased by well over 90% within a few days. Now, months later, she very seldom hits. When she does we pull this book out again and read it together. Anyone with a small child who hits should try this book.

great for pre-schoolers!!

My 3yr. old loves this book. As we read the book, he acts out all of the correct things to do with hands (hugging, helping, shaking). When he gets angry and wants to hit--we remind him of this book and he calms down.It is simple enough for a child to understand and gets right to the point.

AWESOME BOOK!

This book is perfect! Great illustrations, very easy to read and easy for children to understand. Very to the point, hands are not for hitting but they are for playing, washing, hugging. Wonderful!