Nurturing Kindness by Nature is a bedtime storybook containing 22 short stories to be read to children. Each story covers emotions, feelings, and situations we experience for the first time as children. Gratitude, lying, manners, respect for others, losing gracefully, forgiveness, compassion, anger, keeping calm, greed, jealousy, hard work, challenges, judgment, bullying, pride (winning gracefully), acceptance, self-confidence, making mistakes, the importance of learning, bad intentions, and following your dreams.
The stories are all about the situations our little ones get into when they are out and about in the world without us being there. It will provide the parent with opportunities to talk and teach your child morals and ethics and how best to compose themselves when they are alone, It's suited for parents to provide advice to their children starting from their first days at school at the ages of 4 up to the age of 11 or 12. It provides guidance on how best to approach emotions and how to deal with good and bad feelings. The stories prompt deep and meaningful conversation, the stories in the book are designed to prompt conversation with our children and ask them if they have experienced anything similar, if they have you can help by providing your own parental advice. The way the stories are handled in the book is not to be plainly followed, but to help identify situations which our children get into and to prompt a conversation between the parent and child enabling the parent to give their own best advice.