Coping with Worry and Fear Grades K-5 There are a lot of heavy things going on in our world today, and even though we try our hardest kids are going to worry. But, pretending that worries and fears don’t exist is the opposite of what we should be doing. In fact, encouraging kids to talk about what’s frightening them and validating them, helps tremendously. In this lesson, students will understand how fear works, that it’s okay to be afraid, and how to not let fears control how they live or act. Students will identify things in their world that causes them to worry or fear and work through them.
2. Can you explain what fear is? Fear can sneak up on you and make you feel all weird, your heart might race and you might get that frog in the back of your throat or your stomach might feel funny or nervous. Sometimes fear can completely overcome us and make us feel like we can’t do anything. 3. Look at the Worry Scale Worksheet - https://media.centervention.com/pdf/Worry-Scale-Worksheet.pdf Please write down a few things that scare you or that you worry about. After you’ve written down a few things, look at the scale. For each thing you listed, think about where it belongs on the scale. For example: If I wrote down that bugs scare me, I’d look at the scale, and it would fall on “little worried/scared” because they scare me but not so much where I’m really scared.” 4. Now that you've written down worries or the things that scare you and thought about where they fall on the scale, talk about them with a friend, sibling, or trusted adult. Parents explain that one child may be very fearful about something that another child isn’t fearful of at all. And explain how helpful it can be to talk about our fears. Parents, teachers and friends are here to talk about it with you. By talking about what we’re fearful of, making a plan to help with that fear or move past it, will make us feel better. It will also help us either overcome the fear, or it will move down that worry scale for us. Books: Search for some read alouds of these books on Youtube.
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