Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be the Best You Can Be

I received this sample in the hopes I would share my honest opinions.

Too often in today’s society our children are faced with issues we wish they didn’t have to encounter. Bullies will always be around, situations that could pressure our children into doing things they aren’t comfortable with are bound to happen at least once. In some cases it becomes difficult for them to come to us with their problems, or maybe we just don’t know how to bring the subjects up to them before they happen. Sometimes it becomes important for us to find other ways to connect with them but at the same time allowing them to approach the situation in a way that they feel comfortable, and at their own pace. Chicken Soup for the Soul wants to help us do that. Be the Best That You Can Be puts the issues in front of our kids. Allowing them to look at the same problems as an outsider, receiving both insight and solutions that may help them handle the problems they may be too nervous or even embarrassed to come to us with.

Chicken Soup for theSoul: Be the Best You Can Be

By: Amy Newmark & Dr. Milton Boniuk

“These stories address many of the values and behaviors we seek to instill in our children. They celebrate the best in the human spirit for our children and ourselves.”

~David Leebron, President, Rice University.

In the world we live in today, instilling values and morals into our children’s lives has become an important if not the most necessary thing we should strive to do. In reading this book one story stood out to me. Without giving too much of the book away I want to share the story “Adam’s Apples”. A son comes home from school one day and approaches his father with one of today’s toughest questions. “Are all people the same even if their skin color is different?” the father goes on to tell his son that he will answer his question if only he will wait until they go to the grocery store. Upon arrival he tells his son they need apples. Apples of different colors and sizes. He explains to his son that people are like the apples… some are bruised, some are different colors or shades of the same color, and all are different sizes. He then peels the apples and asks his son to tell him which is which. He can’t. Even after taking bites of each one. He looks to his dad, with a big smile on his face. “People are just like apples! They’re all different but once you take off the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the outside.”

 “Food for thought.”

Its stories like these from books like this that can help the youth of today. Help them learn compassion, understanding, tolerance and how hard work and good choices can help them reach their goals.

 
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