| The McCall Kids dot org Self-Esteem Resource Center provides children, youth and adult visitors with a new and innovative resource to prevent substance abuse. Our message is prevention. Our content is educational—the information, activities, and resources provided here are designed to teach and offer opportunity for insight. |
| Our theme is self-esteem and elements that influence self-esteem. Our intent is to promote the well-being of kids of all ages, their parents, and educators. |
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| Parents are the single most important influence on a child's decision to use or not to use alcohol and other drugs. |
| Parents who talk frequently with their children about alcohol and other drugs have children who are half as likely to use them. |
| The number of parents who believe they are talking to their children about drugs far exceeds the number of young people who say their parents are doing so. |
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| Check these books out: |
| Virginia Satir's The New Peoplemaking, Palo Alto, CA: Science & Behavior Books, Inc., 1988. |
| Nan Henderson & Mike Milstein's Resiliency in Schools, Making It Happen ... Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc., 1996. |
| Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer's Raising Confident Girls - 100Tips, Cambridge, MA: Fisher Books, 2001. |
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| The Dangerous Book for Boys is a new book written by Conn and Hal Iggulden for boys. It is loaded with indoor and outdoor fun and you don't need hi-tech to enjoy the activities. |
| As a matter of fact the authors say, "In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses and stories of incredible courage ... and making the best paper airplane in the world." |
| It is in bookstores now. The publisher is HarperCollins. |
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| Center Home Page |
| For Big Kids |
| For Educators |
| For Little Kids |
| For Parents |
| About Self-Esteem |
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Little Kids Popup Pages
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| Asking for Things |
| Feelings |
| Rules |
| Self-Esteem |
| Toys & Other Stuff |
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Big Kids Popup Pages
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| Bullying |
| Communication |
| Communication Guide |
| Feelings |
| Let's Get Organized |
| Risking |
| Stress |
| When Life is Unfair |
| Word-of-the-Month |
| Adults Popup Pages |
| Bullying |
| From Risk to Resiliency |
| Social Development |
| Risk & Protective Factors |
| Self-Esteem System |
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Portable Document Format (PDF) Pages
for downloading & printing |
| Action Planning Guide |
| Personal Organizer |
| (revised August 2007) |
| Stress Control Kit |
| Note: To view & print PDF files, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. |
| Click to download Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Our material is researched-based. We include the works of David Hawkins and his research group out of the University of Washington whose studies and strategies have had a profound 20 year impact on prevention efforts across America; Emmy Werner, “Mother of Resiliency,” whose work with a cohort of 700 indviduals over a 40 year span from birth has provided new insight to healthy growth and development and replaced deficit-based approaches with strength-based strategies; Virginia Satir, eminent therapist and author, whose approach to self-esteem offers realistic and workable strategies for strengthening how individuals, families, and other groups think and feel about themselves. |
| All education is prevention education. We educate ourselves and our children to prevent bad things from happening. But we don’t usually think of education in this negative light. We think of education as more positive, as the means to good things happening. So it is with this high technology resource. The McCall Kids Dot Org Self-Esteem Resource Center increases the potential of those who visit, learn and apply what is available here. It’s a prevention resource, yes, but worthy in itself as an educational opportunity, prevention aside. |
| This Self-Esteem Resource Center is committed to providing education about self-esteem and those issues that influence self-esteem, both positively and negatively; suggesting means by which self-esteem can be strengthened; and offering resources that kids and adults may use to enhance their self-esteem. |