Coping Skills
Taking slow, deep breaths, sometimes called "belly breathing," helps calm this down when you feel anxious or angry.
Your body
Why do you do this routine when you're dirty?
Taking a shower to stay clean
You should always look both ways (left, right, and left again) before doing this action.
Crossing the street
You are working hard building a massive Lego tower, and your younger sibling runs by and accidentally knocks the whole thing over. This is the emotion you are likely feeling
Anger
This is the closest planet to the Sun, and it shares its name with a liquid metal.
Mercury
This coping strategy involves stepping away from a stressful situation to sit quietly, color, or listen to music until you feel calm.
Taking a break
At school, where do you go to play outside with your friends?
The playground
If a stranger approaches you in public and asks you to go with them to look for a lost puppy, this is what you should do.
Say "No," run away, and tell a trusted adult.
Your family moves to a new town, and today is your first day at a new school where you don't know anyone and miss your old best friend. This is the emotion you are experiencing.
Sadness
This spiky-shelled king of the Koopas is Mario's ultimate rival and is constantly trying to capture Princess Peach.
Bowser
The 5-4-3-2-1 technique, which involves naming things you can see, touch, hear, smell, and taste, is used for this calming purpose.
Grounding yourself
Nurses Office
This is a safe group of people you can look for if you accidentally get separated from your adult while at an amusement park or mall.
Who are security guards
You are trying out for the competitive basketball team for the first time, and your stomach feels like it's doing flips right before your turn. This is the emotion you are feeling.
Scared
He is currently the most subscribed individual YouTuber in the world, famous for his massive giveaway challenges, bright blue and pink tiger logo, and Feastables chocolate bars.
Mr Beast
This is something healthy you can do with your hands, like drawing, squeezing a stress ball, or playing with fidgets, to help you calm down.
Using a coping tool
Why do you brush and floss every night?
To keep your teeth clean
This is the most important piece of personal information you and a trusted adult should decide on ahead of time to use in case an emergency or an unsafe situation happens in public.
Emergency contact phone number
During a video game, another player keeps defeating your character unfairly, making you want to throw your controller out of frustration. This is a safe coping skill you can do instead.
Pausing the game and taking a break
In Roblox, this is the default, universal name given to a brand-new player character before they customize their avatar.
Noob
If you are feeling completely overwhelmed, this is the best person to look for or talk to about how you feel.
A trusted adult
Outside for a fire alarm
This safety rule means being fully aware of your surroundings, keeping your eyes up instead of on a screen, and trusting your gut feeling if a place feels unsafe
What is situational awareness?
You wake up in the middle of the night because of a loud thunderstorm, and the dark room makes you feel terrified to go back to sleep. This is a helpful action you can take to feel safe.
Turning on a nightlight or going to talk to a parent
In the Super Mario Odyssey game on Nintendo Switch, Mario uses this magical, sentient hat to possess and control enemies like Goombas and T-Rexes.
Cappy