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Author offers parents new resource in combatting kids’ jitters

A Caroline-area author is helping tackle common childhood anxieties through her book The Girl Who Tamed Her Wonder Worm.

A Caroline-area author is helping tackle common childhood anxieties through her book The Girl Who Tamed Her Wonder Worm.

Rose Brenda Lavis is offering parents a new resource in combatting their children’s jitters about preschool, kindergarten or other new experiences.

Lavis’s book, self-published through the U.S. AuthorHouse firm, is based on her daughter Jill’s emotions upon starting playschool.

The four-year-old’s feelings about her unfamiliar environment soon shift from happy anticipation into uncertainty and anxiety.

She tells her mother she doesn’t want to go back to playschool, she wants to stay home and play in her own backyard with the kids she knows.

The book with colourful illustrations recounts how Jill’s negative feelings are eventually overcome and the “wonder worry worm” in her stomach turns back into a “happy fluttering butterfly.”

Calgary-born Lavis has written three previous children’s books and is creating an educational program based on them.

For more information, visit www.reachhigherempowermentcentre.com

The Girl Who Tamed Her Wonder Worm is available for $18.13 from www.amazon.com or US$16.99 from www.authorhouse.com