The ability to control your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to make good decisions and reach your goals.
Self Management
Any body movement that uses energy, like playing, walking, or sports.
Physical Activity
Different choices or options you can pick from when making a decision.
Alternatives
The web address of a website (like www.cdc.gov). The ending (.gov, .edu, .org, .com) helps show how trustworthy it might be.
URL
Speaking up or taking action to support a positive cause or help others make healthy choices.
Advocacy
Being responsible for your actions and able to explain your choices.
Accountability
Treating people, yourself, and things in a kind and fair way.
Respect
Feeling worried or left out when you think other people are having fun without you.
FOMO
An organization that provides services or information without trying to make money. Their goal is to help people or support a cause. Example: American Red Cross.
Commercial Website
Facts, information, or data collected from reliable sources that help support a health message.
Evidence
Choosing to think in a hopeful and confident way, even when things are hard.
Positive Mindset
Doing something on purpose, not by accident.
Intentionally
Trying to stay away from something that feels hard, uncomfortable, or stressful.
Avoidance
To recognize or point out the difference between two or more things.
Distinguish
Working together with others to reach a shared goal or create something.
Collaboration
To manage or control something, like your emotions or actions.
Regulate
Thinking back about your choices, actions, or feelings to learn from them.
Reflection
Understanding your own thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Self-Awareness
The qualifications or expertise of the person or group who created the information. It shows why you can trust what they say.
Author Authority
Numbers or data that show patterns or facts to support a message.
Statistics
Using technology and the internet in a respectful, safe, and smart way.
Digital Responsibilities
A way to measure the energy you get from food and drinks.
Calories
Choices made quickly without thinking about the results.
Impulsive Decisions
Where and when the information was published or released, such as a book, website, or journal.
Publication
Statements that encourage healthy behaviors by focusing on what people can do and the benefits of making good choices.
Positive Messages