Buy I’m Gonna Like Me in any of the following editions:
Hardcover:
0060287616, $15.99
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0060287624, $17.89 |
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I’m Gonna Like Me:
Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem
Ages 4-8, Grades PreK-3 |
Celebrate liking yourself! With fun rhyming verses and fresh lively artwork, #1 best-selling team Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell’s new book is about how it’s important to like yourself every day. Through alternating points of view, a boy’s and a girl’s, I’m Gonna Like Me shows children that whether we get an answer wrong in school or are picked last for the team, what’s most important is liking who we are. In the tradition of this duo’s first New York Times best-seller, Today I Feel Silly, this new book shows us that whether life is sad or bad, liking yourself is what counts most.
 A note from Jamie: I’m Gonna Like Me is about feeling good about yourself, which is as much about trying on a new dress and feeling good as it is about making a get-well card for a sick friend, or trying hard at something at school and failing, but learning from that experience. What’s important in building self-esteem is that when your child fails at something they tried hard at in school, or at anything in their life, is to ask your child, What was the experience like? Kids learn—we all learn—from failure. What happens, though, is that parents don’t want to let kids fail because we don’t want to see them get hurt. But life is full of pain and joy, and it is that split, that balance makes a whole person. |
I think that often parents misunderstand what praise is. It’s not about applauding because your child tied his shoes well that day, or because your child climbed to the top of the jungle gym. It’s important not to let your kid always be number one. Self-esteem is at the core of what is wrong with us and what is right with us. It’s an absolutely universal issue. I’m Gonna Like Me allows children to explore their own feelings of self-worth in their home, in a book to share with parents and caregivers. |
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