Words Are Not for Hurting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Very good product, would buy again. Shipping was fast and easy.Great for kids and reinforcing good/bad behaviors

We LOVE this entire series. I made the mistake of ordering the board book instead of the other version- I assumed they were the same. My youngest is a book ripper due to OT. That's my only complaint- I couldn't find anywhere that labeled the differences when I looked and when I flipped through the peek inside they looked the same. Since ordering the board book, someone told me they are different. So a heads up for anyone trying to decide. I guess the other elaborates a bit more and uses some different words.

My child loves this series.

We have bought several books from this series; it has great teachings for little minds to grasp!Would highly recommend!

I love this series. My two favorites are "Hands are not for Hitting" and "Worries are not Forever"- they are really done well. But this one I was really shocked by...it teaches that the one thing you can do when you say something harshly is to say "I"m sorry!" I don't mind teaching kids to say "please" and "thank you" because they don't have anything to do with communicating feelings- they are just polite things to say when you want something from someone or receive something from someone. But we tend to lump "I'm sorry" into that category because no one has taught us that saying "I feel sorry about the thing I did" is actually telling someone about our feeling of regret and remorse. If we teach children to immediately communicate this to other people we are teaching them to invent a feeling or lie about a feeling they may or may not be having. This is teaching our children to manipulate. Saying, "I am sorry I did that" without them actually feeling this first is not okay. I took a label-maker to my copy of this book and changed it. I did keep the idea that *if* someone feels sad that they made someone else sad they can say "I'm sorry"...it's not a bad message, it just need more emotional education and other options of different communication in these tricky moments to support the teaching of "I'm sorry." The other thing I didn't appreciate in the book is there are so little examples of things that children say that hurt other people. The examples in the book that are given for "hurting words" are just a message that a child wants to convey said in a negative way (saying, "go away!"). I think some other examples would be more poignant to use as examples other than "go away!" so I added some others to mine. I'll post pictures soon.

My son loves these and the pictures and follows along very well!!

This series is great for younger kids or kids that may need some reminders about basic conduct/manners/hygiene. The message is clear and direct, the colors are great, and the words are repetitive enough that they make for wonderful early readers as well. Our autistic son needs these reminders to help him navigate life in public school and he loves these books. These are board books, so they hold up well to the love they will surely receive. This one is a great reminder to the kiddos who forget to think before they speak.

My toddler loves this series

This item has a good moral lesson for young children and it proved to be valuable to the teachers who wanted to teach the children this concept.

この本は読み聞かせ会に絶対読みたい絵本です。言葉は人を傷つけるものじゃないんだよ、ということを説教くさくなくさらっと教えてくれる。どうすれば人を傷つけずに済むのかも。

Great. If helps our little once know that words really do hurt!

But I appreciate about this book is it is written in simple language. I bought it for my toddler who's for an embarrassingly swears. This book is not appropriate for 4-year-olds due to the language I think it's a little above that age group.

It is a good book and suitable for my son's age. Unfortunately, one thing is so disappointed that I paid for new book but give me an old one.