How to be a Fantastic Sensational Good Enough Kid

How to be a Fantastic Sensational Good Enough Kid by Alice Peel

How to be a fantastic sensational good enough kid is the book children, parents and teachers have been waiting for. This  new book examines the life skills and emotional dilemmas ‘good enough’ kids face every day, providing relatable advice on how to be resilient, brave, kind, and ‘enough’.

Author Alice Peel co-founded Grow Your Mind – a ground-breaking wellbeing program in over 500 Australian schools that helps children develop resilience, emotional regulation, and friendship skills. With humour, research, quirky comics and pop-out illustrations by Beck Feiner, Peel presents fascinating brain facts, inspiring stories and ‘non-painful’ tips on practising many wellbeing strategies. These include gratitude, moving your body, replacing screen time with green time and extending kindness outside your immediate circle.

‘The book encourages readers to embrace imperfections, celebrate kindness, and go forth into the world ready to be a proud glimmer-seeking, awe-hunting & totally good-enough kid,’ says Peel.

Peel wants readers to let go of the need to be the best to feel worthy. Instead, the book urges children to shift their focus from perfection to progress.

According to Beyond Blue, half of all serious mental health issues begin before a child reaches 14 years of age. Alice Peel and her Grow Your Mind co-founder, Kristina Freeman, believe that teaching young children about mental wellbeing early is one key way we can play a proactive role in setting up a life of enduring good mental health.

Peel and Freeman’s program Grow Your Mind is on a mission to reclaim the term mental health. Their key goal is to educate all children from an early age (ideally from the age of 4), as well as their educators and families, about what mental health is and the skills essential for supporting it.

Like the Grow Your Mind program, the book's content is built upon four pillars of mental health and well-being: positive psychology, social and emotional learning, public health and neuroscience. It covers facts about the brain and how it works, helps readers understand and manage uncomfortable emotions like jealousy and explains the importance of conflict and repair in friendships. It provides tips on reducing stress and maintaining healthy relationships, outlines how and why we make decisions, and gives great advice on being brave, resilient and true to yourself.

How to be a fantastic sensational good enough kid is chock-a-block with fascinating facts, activities, tips and inspiring stories accompanied by bright illustrations and playful text that will engage kids and stimulate important conversations. It’s the only guide you’ll need to be a good enough kid.