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Children this age are spending more time with other kids - in day care, at preschool, or on the playground. Through these interactions, they learn how actions affect others--for example, that sharing can make others happy, while refusing to take turns can make them angry or sad. They also start to recognize individual differences in the need for comfort. Whereas a toddler might have pulled his mother over to comfort a crying child in the playground, a preschooler realizes that the boy wants his own mommy. Kids often use an egocentric version of the Golden Rule ("He hit me first!") to justify aggression.
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Materials: Old magazines, heavy paper, glue, scissors, pens First look through magazines with your child and identify together how people in the photographs are feeling. Then help your child cut the pictures out and glue them on heavy paper. Help your child label the feeling under each photo. Then talk about a time you experienced one of the feelings shown. |
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By Ann-Jeanette Campbell, Fabian Negrin (Illustrator)
Knopf; hardcover, 32 pages
Based on the Greek legend of Pandora's Box, this story is about a young girl, Dora, who learns the compassion that accompanies knowledge of both good and evil.

A Cure for the Meanies (Pictureback/Crayon Box)
By Tom Dunsmuir, David Silva (Illustrator)
Random House; paperback, 24 pages
When Meanie the Witch has to make an emergency landing in Balloony Town, she intends to spread meanness and misery wherever she goes, but is unable to penetrate the love and generosity of the people there.

The Sleeping Rose
By Angela Elwell Hunt, Chuck Gillies (Illustrator)
Thomas Nelson; hardcover, 32 pages
A farmer grows the "perfect rose" and dreams of becoming a royal master gardener. Along the path to his dreams, however, he encounters a beggar who helps him realize what is truly important in life.

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Distributor: Big Idea Productions
A brawny band of Vikings love pillaging but can't understand why young Lyle (Junior Asparagus) wants to make friends with their victims. Lyle's caring ways win the day. Touching and funny, with outstanding music.

Bear in the Big Blue House, Vol. 4: I Need a Little Help Today
Distributor: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
What do you do for a friend who has the sniffles? Bear's friends respect his need for some quiet time--and also try to help him feel better. 50 minutes. (Jim Henson Home Entertainment)

Maisy's Friends
Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video
When Charlie the crocodile eats too many cupcakes and gets a tummy ache, Maisy the mouse knows just how he feels and just what to do to help him feel better. Music and animated stories celebrate simple pleasures and rich friendships. 38 minutes. Book available.

Thomas the Tank Engine: Thomas Gets Bumped & Other Stories
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Seven stories centered around jealousy and insecurity--issues preschoolers grapple with almost every day. The deft messages here are never simplistic and the solutions ring true. The narrator is George Carlin. 37 minutes.

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The Evergreens: Gentle Tales of Nature
Odds Bodkin opens this lovely, peaceful story tape appropriate for children four and up with a story of an empathic evergreen tree who takes pity on a freezing bird.

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