Books by Colin Drysdale

Mantras To Help Kids Win At Life is a workbook is designed to help children aged between six and twelve develop a robust mental tool kit that will help them deal with anything life might throw at them. By working through the contents of this book, children will learn twelve mantras, each of which encapsulates an important mental tool that they can use to help them deal with a specific type of situation they might otherwise find difficult to deal with. These mantras that have been carefully created based on the results of the latest research into human psychology and have been phrased in such a way that they will remind children how to respond to challenges they may encounter in a positive way. Along with each mantra, you will find information about when to use it, why it helps and how to practice them. This information is provided in easy-to-understand and child-friendly language. For each mantra, there is also the opportunity to try it out by drawing a picture based on a specific prompt, or by completing a brief conversation that a child might have based on it. This will not only help your child understand and remember the mantras, but also help them understand the types of situations where they can prove useful. Finally, space it provided at the back of the book where children can add their own mantras. This allows them to personalise the mental tool kit provided by the contents of this book and adapt it to their own lives. Advice is also provided for parents so they can help their children create mantras that will have the biggest positive impacts on their lives. From the back of the bookWhat is a Mantra?A mantra is a short, easy-to-remember phrase that, if you repeat it to yourself, will help remind you how to positively respond to or cope with a specific situation you may find yourself in. This makes mantras excellent tools for helping you to prepare for, and deal with, anything life has to throw at you. In addition, if you use the right kind of mantras on a regular basis, they will help you build a better brain equipped with some really useful tools that will help you to have a more positive view of life, and that will help you deal with almost any situation you may encounter.What's in this Workbook?This workbook contains twelve different mantras. Each one has been carefully created based on the results of the latest research into human psychology to help you develop a different mental tool to cope with a type of situation that children might otherwise find difficult to deal with. This makes each one very useful on its own, but when they are all brought together, these mantras form a mental tool kit that will help you achieve more of whatever you wish to achieve, cope better with any obstacles you may encounter, and leave you feeling more relaxed and happier than you would be if you didn't have these tools available to you. Each one is accompanied by the opportunity to try it out by drawing a picture of you using it, or completing a short conversation you might have based on it. This will help you better understand how and when to use it. Space is also provided at the end where you can add your own mantras to help you personalise your mental tool kit and adapt it to your own individual needs.Note: A Classroom Edition of this book is also available that has been specifically designed and formatted to allow teachers to easily create handouts from its contents for use in primary classrooms.