Joy Berry Classic Series books currently in publication are broken down into six series which are designed to address childhood issues at every age.
All books feature free downloads, which includes (but is not limited to): Tips for Parents, Read Along Soundtracks and Original Music.
I Love... (Teach Me About)
- Comprehensive Early Learning for Toddlers aged 1—3.
At age 1, children are just making the transition from infant to toddler. Teach Me About books help toddlers ages 1—3 begin to do things independently and learn about basic relationships.
Very young children often develop irresponsible behavior when they are not encouraged to assume responsibility for their actions and reactions. Parents often foster irresponsible behavior when they perceive children as helpless and incapable of assuming responsibility for their lives. The purpose of Teach Me About is to help parents begin the process of shifting the responsibility for a child’s behavior from the parent to the child.
Do It Yourself Potty Training Kit for Boys and Girls: Two interactive do it yourself kits - one for boys and one for girls - that will help children master potty training. This kit contains everything a parent needs to get started
"I Love Potty Training" Interactive Potty Kit for Boys and Girls (Bi-Lingual): I Love Potty Training by Joy Berry is the ultimate potty guide and app for the iPhone and iPad. From tips and advice to tracking tools, games and ebooks, this app has everything you need for successful potty training. It even emails you a diploma when training is complete.
Let's Talk About
- Handling Emotions in Positive Ways for children ages 3—6
Let's Talk About books help children ages 3—6 navigate their way through difficult emotions. Rather than categorize emotions as good or bad, Joy Berry describes them as comfortable or uncomfortable. And she says, "Uncomfortable emotions can be positive as they often motivate a person to do something that needs to be done."
Raw emotions, as well as emotionally charged situations, are the source of a child’s first inner conflicts and discomfort. This inner turmoil can manifest in unacceptable behavior that can be troublesome to parents as well as children.
Help Me Be Good
- Replacing Misbehavior with Good Behavior for children ages 4—7
Help Me Be Good books help children replace "misbehavior" with good behavior in an inviting format (text and cartoons panels). Each book in the Help Me Be Good series defines a misbehavior, such as teasing or fighting and explains the cause of the misbehavior and its negative effects. This series offers children and parents practical advice for turning misbehavior into acceptable behavior.
The normal egocentricity of young children often leads to misbehavior that evokes negative responses from others. These negative responses can lead to a destructive cycle of negative action and reaction. The purpose of Help Me Be Good is to break the cycle of negative action and reaction.
Each Help Me Be Good book defines a misbehavior, explains the cause of the misbehavior, discusses the negative effects of the misbehavior, and offers suggestions for replacing the misbehavior with acceptable behavior.
A Fun And Easy Way
- Personal, Social and Coping Skills for children ages 6—10
The purpose of the Fun and Easy Way books is to teach children he personal, social and coping skills needed to help them fulfill reasonable expectations at home and at school, both academically and socially.
This is accomplished by teaching children the personal skills they need to take care of themselves, the social skills they need to develop and maintain positive relationships, and the coping skills they need to relate to things in positive rather than negative ways.
Children are often ill equipped to assume the responsibilities that are required of them. Failure to perform adequately creates frustrations and disappointments for children and the people around them.
Good Answers To Tough Questions
- Honest, Informative Answers to Hard Topics for children ages 6—12
Each book in the Good Answers to Tough Questions series focuses on a critical issue (divorce, moving, trauma, natural disasters) and helps elementary-school-age children see that there are ways to turn negative life experiences in to positive ones.
All children will encounter trauma in their lives, whether directly or indirectly. Tough experiences can be detrimental to any child if not addressed and handled properly. Parents are often not equipped to help children appropriately handle the difficulties of their experience.
Good Answers to Tough Questions can also help parents, teachers, and counselors by stimulating therapeutic dialogues and providing insights that can lead to positive behavior modification.
Winning Skills
- Motivating Tweens to Overcome and Succeed for children ages 11+
Generally speaking, pre-adolescent misbehavior just before the teen years is a direct result of low self-esteem, lack of purpose or direction, pressure to succeed, traumatic experiences, unresolved problems, and/or the quest for excitement. Peer pressure is often the catalyst that causes these factors to result in misbehavior.
Dealing with pre-adolescent misbehavior using the popular shape-up-or-ship-out approach is ineffectual because it deals with the symptoms rather than the problem. In order to make a substantial impact on pre-adolescent misbehavior, it is necessary to resolve the issues that cause it.
Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween
- " Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween" (Ages 5-7)
This kit "takes the scary out of Halloween" with 10 safety guidelines for Halloween as well as "make and do" activities for costumes and makeup, glow in the dark stickers, glow sticks, a glow necklace and bracelet, a flashlight and a few simple recipes.
- The Taking The Scary Out Of Halloween kit is now available exclusively at Barnes & Noble and BN.com