Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #LifeSkills

By Kathleen Boucher

Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #LIFESKILLS is a self-help book for tweens. Fraternal twins Emma and Elliot teach tweens practical life strategies that they've learned from their parents and teachers. These life skills include how to have more confidence when presenting in class, the importance of work ethic, a simple writing technique to help deal with anger, and more. There are exercises at the end of each chapter that tweens can use to integrate what they've learned.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Nov 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9780228818809

Kathleen Boucher

She is a registered nurse whose specialty is intensive care nursing. She lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, two children, and their dog, Sasha.

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Endorsements for Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #Lifeskills

I would highly recommend this book to tweens and parents alike! This book offers practical strategies for tweens to live their best life, embracing their mistakes and empowering them to be lifelong learners and teachers, normalizing the challenges of navigating the tween years.

- Julie Collette, MC, RCC

Vancouver, BC

Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #Lifeskills is an inspiring and helpful book that teaches life skills that both boys and girls aged 10-12 can use now and for years to come.

- Joe Vitale

The Remembering Process

by Daniel Barrett & Joe Vitale

As a rising generation inherits a world of rapid change, the need for timeless insight becomes more urgent. Although few admit this, many young people crave a solid framework at times when everything seems to be shifting around them. Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #Lifeskills makes positive-psychology, and brain-based strategies easy to absorb and practice. The ways of thinking presented in this outstanding guide are indispensable for people in any situation—now or in the future.

- Josiah Hultgren,

Founder of MindFullyAlive and Senior

Lecturer at California Lutheran University

Kathleen Boucher’s book, Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #Lifeskills, is wonderfully written and speaks powerfully in a way that our youth can easily understand and put important life skill concepts into action. Among other things, this book teaches young people how to speak with confidence in public, the importance of gratitude, the impact of maintaining a good work ethic, etc. I have a ‘tween’ right now and we will be reading this book together often! Kathleen, your words will be a force for good for so many. Thank you for your wisdom and desire to do good for the youth in this world.

- Ian McCracken, Founder & Executive Director –

Building Youth Around the World (www.buildyouth.org)

Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #LifeSkills

YOU LEARN MORE FROM YOUR MISTAKES THAN FROM ALL YOUR SUCCESS

Kathleen Boucher

Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #LIFESKILLS seeks to teach life skills to tweens. Fraternal twins Emma and Elliot tell this story as part of their mission to empower kids their own age. They share skills that their parents and teachers taught them, to defuse anger, improve confidence, eliminate procrastination, apply the power of gratitude, increase work ethic, and create vision boards.

Nine Ways to Empower Tweens #LifeSkills

Copyright © 2019 by Kathleen Boucher

Editor: Jen MacBride

Designer: Von Langoyan

Project Manager: Redjell Arcillas

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

The information, ideas, and suggestions in this book are not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising as a consequence of your use or application of any information or suggestions in this book.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Tellwell Talent

www.tellwell.ca

ISBN

978-0-2288-1881-6 (Hardcover)

978-0-2288-1882-3 (Paperback)

978-0-2288-1880-9 (eBook)

This book is dedicated to

Casey Mary Mae Boomhour, an amazing writer

Contents

1: How to speak confidently

2: Start each day with gratitude

3: Using vision boards, big and small

4: How to defuse anger and frustration

5: Learning about time and focus

6: The effects of a good work ethic

7: First impressions and interviews

8: Self-talk matters

9: Start each day with love in your heart

Bibliography

CHAPTER 1

How to speak confidently

Repeat after me: be prepared

so you won’t be scared.

Remember this declaration.

Hi, my name is Elliot. My sister’s name is Emma. Emma and I are fraternal twins. We’re twelve, which means we’re tweens. In this chapter, we will show you how you can use a simple technique to learn to speak confidently. We want to share this information so that you feel empowered to try new things and to be more self-assured.

Allow us to introduce ourselves a little more. As I said, Emma and I are fraternal twins. This means we have the same birthday, but we are not identical. We live on a farm in Ontario, Canada. Our dad farms, and our mom writes children’s books. We own three cats, two birds, a dog, and a gerbil.

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Hopefully our advice in this book helps you learn to speak confidently. That skill will come in handy a lot throughout your entire life. So, why should you listen to us, anyway? Well, we’ve been fortunate enough to learn a lot of great stuff about life, and we want to share all that knowledge with you. It all started with this declaration: be prepared so you won’t be scared. Our best friend, Todd, taught us that back in first grade. We don’t know who taught him. We never asked. We’re really grateful he taught us, though, because we have used it ever since.

We are going to cover two topics in this chapter just for you. The first topic is how to boost your confidence. The second topic is how to prepare to give a talk in front of people. Oh wait, Emma is leaning over my shoulder and insisting on adding a third topic, so topic three is how to combine the confidence you have with the preparation you have done. Practice helps you gradually improve.

You are going to make mistakes.

We all do.

Fantastic! No more being paralyzed by the fear of failure. Imagine being excited about making mistakes and slowly improving. By using the topics we’re about to teach you, you can celebrate each time you try something new! In The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How,¹ Daniel Coyle advises not to be afraid to try something because you are afraid of making