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UNRESOLVED CONFLICTS OFTEN LEAD KIDS TO VIOLENT ACTS!
Field tested and research-based, The Peace Rug has been used for more than 7 years by teachers and parents to successfully teach children how to immediately handle conflicts, hurt feelings, teasing, anger, and bullying.
NOW YOU CAN READ A STORY AND TEACH THE PEACE RUG
AT THE SAME TIME!
For whole group instruction!
ENDORSED BY DR. WILLIAM GLASSER
Introducing
Eric, Jose & The Peace Rug,
a new book by
Dr. Helen B. McIntosh,
Licensed Counseling Psychologist (LPC),
Certified Reality Therapist (CRT), and Inventor of The Peace Rug.
Says Dr. William Glasser, M.D., a world-renowned psychiatrist, lecturer, and author with Harper Collins of over twenty-one books including Reality Therapy, Choice Theory, The Quality School, and Every Student Can Succeed : "This book explains The Peace Rug - in which Choice Theory, and therefore mental health – is involved all the time. I give my full support of this book and its ideas. You did a great job and I am very happy with it!"
A story for all students Grades PK-5, their counselors, their media specialists, and their principals, this one book can teach a “common language” and the skills necessary for creating the peaceful school climate you have longed for... plus it’s an addition to your literacy program.
Eric and Jose not only do not get along – they hate each other. Theirs is a “simple-to-understand” story of conflict resolution, learning to talk to each other about the problem, talking through a plan to make things better, learning to be friends, and even teaching others “how” – including the reader.
Email from elementary school counselor in Georgia received on 4/16/2007:
Yes, I did receive the book in excellent condition. I have already used it a number of times with individual students in my counseling office and plan to continue using it with classrooms as well. I highly recommend the book for counselors. Thanks, Anne
Another email: Good Morning, Carol, I wanted to respond to your E-Mail about the Peace Rug. My daughter is a first year school teacher, so I am always looking for teaching materials and fun ideas to help her in the class room. When we purchased the area rug display for Simas Floors, I read about the Peace Rug and knew my daughter's students could greatly benefit from its healing powers. The first week she used the rug, one of her students in trouble said he felt his Grandpa that had passed away and the rug made him do better. One girl said the clouds gave her a big hug when she was feeling bad. Now that school is about to end, Tracy said she will include the Peace Rug in her beginning rules on behavior next year. Several teachers at her school are interested in using the rug also. Our students need a place for quiet safe time out, thank you for the Peace Rug.
Jan Madison
Sacramento, CA
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NEW BOOK FROM INVENTOR OF THE PEACE RUG!
Just endorsed by June Hunt of Hope for the Heart!
Practical...practical...practical! There is no one who wouldn't benefit from Helen's step-by-step solutions, her sample dialogues and the spiritual focus contained within these pages. Read it—you'll see what I mean.
Endorsed by Stasi Eldredge, wife of John Eldredge and bestselling co-author of Captivating:
"Dr. McIntosh's many years of experience counseling children and adults bears great fruit in what she offers us. Her personal warmth and caring is felt from every page as she suggests tangible godly ways to help women overcome negative patterns of thinking and become the over comers we are in the love of Christ."
Another endorsement by Sheila Walsh, bestselling author of Honestly, Extraordinary Faith, and The Heartache No One Sees:
"How we think affects how we live and how we relate to one another but few of us have been taught how to separate the truth from what we feel. In this honest, insightful book Dr. McIntosh gives us tools to help us live and love and pass on new godly healing habits to our children."
Writes Jan Silvious, Author of Big Girls Don’t Whine, Look At It This Way, and Foolproofing Your Life says:
"Dr. McIntosh is the real deal. I have known and enjoyed her for the last 25 years. Her consistency, warmth and genuine heart for people show in her book full of insight and wisdom. It is a wonderful, practical tool on how to change painful thought patterns and damaging self-talk. She understands the journey personally and professionally. She's done the work. She's walked the walk. Take that journey to freedom with her! I recommend this book to anyone who wants to challenge faulty thinking."
For years, Dr. McIntosh has talked to thousands of children and adults who are struggling with ongoing depression and anxiety and are having difficulties in their relationships. Depression, “the common cold” of emotional disorders, is of grave concern in both the secular and Christian communities. Christians are not reflecting healthy gains in this area and are losing a way to witness to the world.
Fewer than 50 percent with major depression are ever treated and less than 25 percent are treated adequately, and fewer than 10 percent are ever treated optimally. With statistics such as these bordering on the grim zone, McIntosh formulated a plan to effect healthy and lasting life changes from the “inside out” for adults and their children. This plan, contained in Extreme Damage Makeover From the Inside Out: Changing the Hurts in Your Head, Heart, and Relationships, offers readers simple, tangible, concrete help both in readers’ thought patterns and in their relationships with others.
Says McIntosh, “The tools in my book have been used by many to get ‘unstuck’ from a depressed stage and to move into a place of new freedom and social/emotional health. Those who have used these tools have expressed dramatically changed lives!”
The author says, if not dealt with, the internal messages we give ourselves and the external messages we receive from others, can lead to a number of damaging problems, including depression and anxiety. Many Christians face these and other related issues, but don’t let others in on their struggle. She says there is an urgent need for a simple and yet dramatic rescue for a large number of Christians who are depressed, have anxiety issues, anger issues, and even suicidal thoughts. Even mature believers struggle in these areas and need an on-going strategic plan to change their thoughts and wounds.
The content in the book reaches not only those who are depressed, but in a more general sense, those who want to improve the way they think and process life on a daily basis. They may or may not even recognize that their way of thinking affects their behavior and how they view life. Most people want to live differently but need help seeing things more clearly – looking at old messages with new frames.
Endorsement:
Helen, Thank you soooo much for the book. I am about halfway through and am loving it. Your Truth Chart is so simple and "do-able" yet has such a profound impact. I realized that I practice this concept already but not to the extent that I should. Just this morning, I was frustrated with myself about some mistakes I had made in presenting my internet class. I headed down the road of mentally beating myself up and I thought about you and the fender bender. The truth is I made mistakes but they can be fixed and no one has been seriously impacted because of them. Wow, the difference, that has made in my day.
I hope when we can integrate this into our current Sunday School study. I like your Truth Chart better than what is presented in the DeMoss book. The DeMoss book has been good, but you take it a step farther and make it more practical and more full of grace. I love the way you validate people's feelings. I don't believe we can live the abundant life God has for us if we are constantly stuffing and pasting on a smile. You have been a great blessing to me!
Have a great week! Ann |
