How to Be a Person printable poster with cut-and-paste merit badges!
Packed with tips and tricks, How to Be a Person, helps kids learn how to manage whatever life throws their way.
Calculate a tip! Have a conversation! Do a load of laundry! Write a thank-you note! Plunge a toilet! Apologize! Incentivize your kids to skill-up by earning these nifty merit badges—and more!
It’s easy to get started. Kids begin by asking themselves, “How can I help?” Then, try five skills from the sampler of pages from How to Be a Person in the video below.
Next, as they master each skill, pop a cut-and-paste merit badge on this fun How to Be a Person printable poster!
For even more skills to choose from, grab a copy of How to Be a Person and try something from each of these sections of the book: Other Beings, Say it Right, Dirty Things, Wearing That?, Edible Food, Two Cents, and Useful Skills.
Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and advice — all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style — How to Be a Person shows kids just how easy it is to free themselves from parental nagging and become more dependable — and they’ll like themselves better, too!
Excerpted and adapted from How to Be a Person © Catherine Newman. Illustration © Debbie Fong.
For the kid who leaves a wet towel wadded up on the floor or forgets to put a new roll on the toilet-paper thingy, witty parenting writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman provides the ultimate guidebook of essential life skills for kids.
Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills—all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style—this book shows kids just how easy it is to become more dependable—and like themselves better, too! They’ll learn how to clean dirty rooms, care for pets and cactuses, stick up for somebody, and fold a T-shirt.
They’ll even get a crash course in using the kitchen (including how to turn a 33-cent package of ramen into dinner) and a boot camp for lending a hand outside the house (mowing, shoveling, and fixing something loose has never been easier).
This handbook to becoming beyond helpful promises that every kid can be a valuable member of the grown-up world.
