Ouch! Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways

By Michael Genhart

Book Overview

Ouch Moments shows kids who is affected by hurtful words: the target, the mean kid, and bystanders.

Microaggressions or "ouch moments," as they are referred to in the story, are brief exchanges where an indignity, insult, or slight is expressed--whether intentionally or not--from one person to another. For instance, when children use words like "lame" or "gay" to mean that something is bad, weird, or different, they communicate a message that having a disability or being part of LGBT community is equal to being bad, weird, or different. Children likely are not trying to be hurtful; they may just be repeating words that they have heard in the past and may not realize the discriminatory connotations.

Young people have a wonderful capacity to care about each other. However, they need guidance, mentoring, and modeling from adults to understand the impact of their words and behaviors. Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways explains these "ouch moments" in kid-friendly terms, offers practical strategies for what kids can do to help, and empowers kids to stand up to mean and hurtful language.

A Note to Parents and Caregivers by Kevin L. Nadal, PhD, provides more information about microaggressions, and strategies for talking to children about hurtful language, discrimination, and bias.

Excerpt:

When a bee stings, Ouch! That hurts!

When your finger gets caught in a closing door, that hurts a lot.

Hearing a mean or hurtful word hurts a lot, too. When other kids say something mean or hurtful, it is hard to know what to do.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433819627
• ISBN13: 9781433819629
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Magination Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.8" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

A kid's book about innuendos

It should have been called "OW! Moments."