Believe in Yourself: A Heartwarming Story About Gaining Confidence

Mark Arnott: It's an okay book, well-intentioned, urging kids towards good an useful feelings and things - love, knowledge, affirmations, creativity, ambition - all good and worthy things that can indeed help you feel confident. But when you make feeling confident your goal you are perilously close to wading a participation trophy just for showing up. Useful confidence can be achieved only by doing stuff. Useful confidence is something you must earn - earning that confidence will teach you something about yourself, will make you grow. Training your kids to simply feel confident without enabling them strive - even to strive an fail, but then try again - that sort of training can trap your child. With the best of intentions it will leave them helpless. You must earn the right right to be proud and confident. The feelings this books hope to engender in kids are all very nice things, and good. But if you don't want that confidence to be a hollow feel, you must do something - overcome something - grow.

United States on Oct 13, 2023

Gizelle A.: Love this series. Gave it to someone whose daughter is very shy. He liked the book.

United States on Sep 16, 2023

Amazon Customer: Love this book series. At times wordy but gets great messages across for young kids. My daughter is 5 and what we read in this book, we use regularly to support confidence growth.

Canada on Jul 19, 2023

Mona: My 7 year old loved it. It gave her lot of tips and ideas to boost up her confidence when she is low. It also gave her positive outlook when she is frustrated when she is unable to achieve something.

Canada on Jun 01, 2023

wiretap: This book was amazing at helping my shy 5 year old feel more confident at kindergarten and understanding his own feelings. We do affirmations almost every day before school and it has made the best difference! Instead of "anxiety" I read it to him as "nervous" since he understands what nervous is and I don't really want to label his fleeting nervous feeling as anxiety this young.

United States on Oct 19, 2022

Candice Wildey: Purchased this book for an 8 year old who is dealing with some confidence. And he loves this book. We were able to stop at certain pages have a discussion and examples. I am waiting for a little spot of anxiety to arrive. I do plan to get the whole set. Talks about affirmations which we have been practicing daily before the book and my son was happy to see that the book talks about it. Great book definitely recommend!

Canada on Jul 14, 2022

stephan: My five year old granddaughter loved this book about confidence. It’s an extremely well written book with good illustrations. I highly recommend this book for any age child. Just from listening to me read the book gave my granddaughter extra confidence. This book is outstanding in being really very very creative. Creativity helps children grasp concepts.

United States on Apr 22, 2021

Farty McGubbins: All the spot books are a bit at my home.

Canada on Feb 23, 2021

Amazon Customer: My 7 year old daughter absolutely loves this series. This is one of her favourites. It breaks things down so well and has so many lovely ideas. Have now bought about 10 or 11 from this series.

United Kingdom on Jan 31, 2021

Amazon Customer: I think this is my favorite in the series so far! It's so hard to choose. I love the anxiety spot too and it's great to see they go hand in hand. Not only a great social story but what a great tool to use to help kids understand & process their emotions so they can take back the power into their own hands instead of letting their emotions get the best of them. The characters are simple & cute. I think kids love them and the catchy prose the lesson is written in helps kids remember what they need to do when different situations arise. These have definitely been a big help in my house & I would recommend them to mothers & school teachers alike.

United States on Sep 26, 2019