This week we are doing lessons on resilience.
Sometimes we need to put our problems into perspective.
How big is a problem, really?
We invented a problem scale. Each child had a set of five lollies with numbers on them.
Problem number 1: A glitch, something that usually solves itself.
Problem number 2: A small problem which you can solve yourself.
Problem number 3: A problem for which you need some help from others.
Problem number 4: A problem for which you need a lot of help.
Problem number 5: An emergency. Something that can be helped with some difficulty, if at all. Sometimes we need to learn to live with a number 5.
We read a lot of different scenarios, and discussed how big each problem is. Dealing with the small problems ourselves helps us face the bigger problems better. That is resilience.
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