Publisher's Synopsis
Ralph and his sweet friends will transport your child to Carberry Street, a magical neighborhood filled with new friends and valuable lessons. These stories will help to reassure your child that other children, too, face difficult situations and hard choices every day. If you want to learn more about his adventures, keep reading!
Reading these stories with your child at bedtime will allow you to discuss morals and values in a
comfortable and relaxed atmosphere and remind your child how much you love them and that,
like the parents in the stories, you want to help them to do the right thing.
On Carberry Street your child will meet: Ralph, who always wants to help his friends, but learns that bad decisions hurt everyone; Emily, a new neighbor, who uses a wheelchair and faces problems the other children could never imagine; Sam, who is still learning how responsible he must be for others in his family; Dylan, who deals with a difficult homelife by telling unbelievable stories to his friends that feature him as a hero; and Ralph's new dog, Noodle, who loves Ralph completely with his loyal little doggie heart.
The children on Carberry Street will help your child learn:
- How to make good choices when friends are urging him to make bad ones
- How to stand up for herself or himself in a situation that makes him uncomfortable or when he is being treated unfairly
- How to help friends who may have a hard time in their home, dealing with family problems and the adults around them
- That teasing and cheating cause trouble for everyone
- What he might do to help a friend with a disability by making the friend's life easier and more comfortable
And many more helpful suggestions that he can use daily!
You want to share the things you know that will make choices easier with your children.
Teaching your child to reach out to other children, offering friendship and assistance, but still remembering to care for himself and set his own boundaries is a necessity to protect himself.. As much as he loves his friends, he still must make them understand that he will not compromise his own behavior or allow them to take advantage of him. Good judgement must be based on solid moral values applied with love and respect. Carberry Street will enable you to discuss with your child his feelings about his own friends and share with you the concerns he might have. There is no greater gift to give your child than to help him form a firm foundation for his life.
The challenges a child faces every day don't change. The locations change, the times change, but the problems are the same. These stories are made to be read over and over and to be a part of your child's life for years. He will treasure this collection and someday, farther along the road, will want to share these timeless stories with his own children.
