Course: Support Worker Resources, Tile: 21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story

21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story

21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story

N.B. This book should only be used with children whose parents have a service-related mental health condition. Please pre-read the book before you read it with children.
- Nathan's story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD (downloadable, printable version)
  
  This version will be fine for your own photocopier printing, however, a higher quality file is being used by the commercial printer.
- Link to the bookshop
  All eBooks, downloadable (printable) versions of the book, and online educational materials are free. You can also order a commercial, professionally printed:
  A4 tough book (wire coil bound - slightly smaller than an A4),
  A5 tough book (wire coil bound - half the size of an A4),
  A3 Big Book paperback for teaching groups of children (wire coil bound - twice the size of A4), and
  hard card stock Educational Activities pack (looseleaf).
  You are not paying for author royalties, illustrators, graphic designers or technicians. You are paying for a commercial printery (Fuji Xerox Australia) to do on-demand printing, a commercial bookstore (UNE Life Campus Books) to process and pack the online order, Australia Post, a $2 donation to Legacy Australia, and $2-3 for the ECDP project to host their website and continue to provide revisions and updates to the materials, and new resources. The postage and handling is a $14 flat fee for as many books and teaching materials as you like via regular post (so, think about ordering with friends, your organisation, your early childhood service or school). Express Post and International Postage is calculated by weight. Once you click on the link, you can search for the books by typing 'Defence' into the search bar, or the name of the particular book you are after.
- Read-along versions
  Audio
- Audio read-along version of 'Nathan's Story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS'
- Video
- Video read-along version of Nathan's story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS
- Professor Margaret Sims is the reader for this story. Margaret was born and grew up in a rural community in the north island of New Zealand. She has been in Australia for almost 30 years and has had a long career in the early childhood and family support sector, and has published widely in this field. Margaret is an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University, previously teaching at Edith Cowan University and UNE. You can learn how to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Maori, the language of New Zealand's Indigenous people by listening to Margaret in the recordings below.
- How to say 'hello' in Maori (kia ora koutou)
- How to say 'goodbye' in Maori (haere rā)
- Make time for music - drums (used for the page turns in the recording)
- Mapping Activity - Nathan's Story
- Educational Activities - Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD
- Digitised 'Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD: Nathan's story'
  
  N.B. The interactives DO NOT work on phones. They are for iPads, tablets, PCs and Macs.
  Before you use interactives with children, please make sure they:
  1. know the story really well (at least read the book 4 times)
  2. explore the interactives 5-10 pages at a time to deepen their understanding of specific ideas in the book.
  For more information on why this is important, please view this video.
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