Healthy or Unhealthy
Which is a healthy way to deal with anger: Telling your friend why you're mad or punching someone?
Telling your friend why you're mad. This would be the more helpful choice to make.
What are some coping skills you can use at home?
Exercise, running, playing outside, playing a game, listening to music, writing in a journal, splashing your face with cold water, yoga
A friend ripped your backpack off of your back and ran away laughing. Should you: Run after them yelling, or take 3 deep breaths?
3 deep breaths
This is the group of tiny building blocks that make up your body, and cancer starts when some of them don’t grow correctly.
cells
Talk about one time when you used a coping skill. How did it help you?
Talk about one time when you used a coping skill. How did it help you?
Taking Deep breaths
Healthy!
Who at home can help remind you of your coping skills?
Mom, Dad, Siblings, or even a coping plan!
What are some coping skills you can use at school?
Deep breathing, going for a walk, drinking water, asking for a break, counting to 10, fidgets
Treatments like chemotherapy or radiation are used to do this to cancer cells.
Kill or shrink the cells
What is something you would tell other kids who have had a parent die?
Any answer is the right answer
What makes a coping skill unhealthy?
When it is unhelpful, unsafe, or hurtful to yourself or others.
What would be a healthy coping skill to use with a sibling that made you mad?
Talking it out, asking for space, talking to a trusted adult, taking deep breaths, going for a walk around the house.
What coping skills can you use if you are feeling unfocused in class?
Deep breathing, going for a walk, asking for a break...
A doctor who specializes in treating cancer is called this.
Oncologist
What is the hardest part about having one parent?
Any answer is the right one
Punching a pillow
Healthy, as long as it is not hurting you or others!
What kind of coping skills do your family members use? Are they healthy or unhealthy?
What kind of coping skills do your family members use? Are they healthy or unhealthy?
Asking for help when you need it is actually a sign of this—not weakness.
Strength
Cancer is not something you can catch from someone like a cold—this means it is not this.
Contagious
Are coping skills easy for you to implement or difficult?
Are coping skills easy for you to implement or difficult?
What does "healthy coping" mean?
Ways to deal with your emotions that are not harmful to you or others.
How would you feel if someone commented on Mom's hair loss and how would respond?
Any answer is the right answer because that is how you feel
If a friend keeps bothering you at school, what are some coping skills you can use?
Talk to an adult, take deep breaths, ask for a break.
What is the special button in someones chest called that can attach to medicine that the doctors insert during surgery?
Port
What is something that gets you mad/upset? What coping skill could you use?
What is something that gets you mad/upset? What coping skill could you use?