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When Patrick trips over a tree-root playing with his dog in theyard and bruises his knee, his fathert places his hands lightly on his knee and closes his eyes for a few minutes.learned this from his mother, he says; it's called Compassionate Touch. That night Patrick imagines that maybe something like this could stop the continual heckling and teasing kids do to other kids at school. The next day in Show and Tell he describes Compassionate Touch, and how his knee felt. His teacher listends to her class talk about times when they jurt each others' feelings, or get hurt without any-one paying any attention. She suggests they start a project called "Helping Hands". After learning the basics of Compassionate Touch, the children practice it on one another, begin to do it at home, and when someone falls - or is pushed. Gradually the children in Mrs Pendleton's second grade become more considerate, and even stop the teasing and hurtful jiving which had become second nature.
Author Susan Cotta USA 2003 Large size hardcover 32 pages Full colour
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