Part II Raising Can Do Kids – Identifying the gifts through understanding AM Written by Teresa MI Schaefer. PhD In part I of Raising Can Do Kids I identified The Little Engine that Could as a favorite text I use in therapy. Another therapy favorite is Hooray for Me! Different from The Little Engine book,Hooray for Me! is less about CAN and more about AM: I am me...I am my mother and father’s [child]…I am my cousin’s cousin…I am my dog’s walker… I am my shadow’s shadow…I ammy

Part I of a series Written by Teresa MI Schaefer, PhD One of my favorite picture books from childhood is The Little Engine That Could. I loved it as a child, loved it as a parent, and, love it as a therapist. It is about CAN. Not just “I think I can.” But I CAN. When I talk to the parents and children I work with, even the adults working with me without children, it is not uncommon for me to refer to this book. In the field of mental health, just as in the field of medicine,