Background to Amazing ME

Amazing ME is a series of five Tracks for children aged between one and five to six years.

Amazing ME aims to nurture and support the development of life skills that enhance a child's self esteem and confidence.

Research shows us that:

The essential components of a developmental life-skills programme for pre-school children include:

• Valuing the building of self esteem and confidence
• Teaching children what is acceptable and unacceptable
• Encouraging children to say "I don't like it when you did that"
• Teaching children that the genital area is special and encouraging them to attend to their own hygiene
• Pre-school children can be taught simple plans of action and need the active support and direction of adults in their implementation.

The essential components for a television programme for pre-schoolers include:

• FUN!
• Warm and caring adult interaction
• Opportunities for children to practise both familiar and new skills
• Positive, humorous situations which are engaging for young viewers
• To be able to identify with some characters and situations

The presenter, Suzy Cato who directly interacts with the viewer takes the viewer on a journey of discovery, affirmation and learning. Suzy invites joining in and having a go as a big plus in growth on the path to self-esteem.

Amazing ME uses a diversity of emotions to engage, entertain and inform young children, leaving them with concrete strategies to use in their everyday life.

Using dance, song, stories, appropriately powerful written dialogue and lots of fun, Amazing ME reinforces that each and every child is amazing and has valuable contributions to make.

Amazing ME uses the tried and true formula from the best loved television series "You and Me" to engage and stimulate viewers to have fun while learning about themselves and the world around them.

The Amazing ME scripts have been developed by a team of professionals from a wide variety of related industries, e.g. Police Education, Public Health, Early Childhood Development, Health, Children and Young Persons & Their Families Service, Health Protection, Children's Issues Centre, and Early Childhood Teachers.