Use
I-Messages
to voice
your thoughts
and Feelings
100

Your parents/guardian keep comparing you to someone else. They keep saying,
“why can’t you be more like him/her?”

I feel upset/sad/angry when you are comparing me to him/her because it makes me feel like I am not good enough. What I need is for you to value me for who I am. 

100

You feel like your parents/guardian always
tell you what to do, but never hear you out
when you’re trying to voice your opinion.

100

Your parent/guardian is not letting you play Fortnite or be on your phone.

100

You feel like your teacher is alway picking on you.

100

You realized that a person you do not know keeps looking at you. You feel weird about it. 

200

Your teacher always makes you go in front of the class when you don’t want to.

200

During 3rd period, you want to use a pass. However, the teacher not letting you.

200

One of your friends really hates another student. That student wants to be friends with you. You have nothing against him/her. But, you are afraid that your friend will stop being friends
with you if she/he sees you talk to him/her.

200

You usually like your fourth period. However, there is this one student who always gets on your nerves. You think he/she is very annoying.

200

You hear your classmates make fun of a student because he is gay.

300

You’ve been failing your classes. To be honest,
 it’s because you have been talking to your
friends and have been distracted. But now,
you’re trying to raise your grades up again.
When you try to, your friends are being really loud and talk to you

300

You have to do a group project with other students. However, you don’t agree with the way your group is doing things.

300

You have to do a big group project with your friends. However, you end up doing most of the work.

300

You and you friend have made plans to hang out next weekend. An hour before you are supposed to meet, your friend decided to hang out with somebody else

300

You are standing in line. A person cuts in front of you. 

400

You decided to share your biggest  secret to your friend. But, your friend told your secret to people you do not like.

400

Your friend did not invite you to his/her birthday party. You feel really sad and very hurt.
                                                   

400

Your teacher thinks you have been copying someone else’s work. You keep telling him that you’re not, but he is not listening to you.

400

Your friend recently got a bf/gf. You try to be nice to them, but other students now are telling your friend that you are flirting with them. Your friend is now mad at you.

400

Your friends have been pressuring you to skip class. 

500

When you come home from school, your mom is upset because she thinks you broke her favorite vase without telling her about it. She automatically grounds you.

500

A classmate has asked you to borrow a pen. Every time you lend her one, you don’t get it back, so this time you say no. She gets angry
and starts to yell at you.

500

A friend has been touching you every now and then, but you feel very uncomfortable.

500

You keep hearing someone you don't like talking behind your back.

500

Your friends made fun of a hobby you like.