BOUNCE BACK! by Toni Noble & Helen McGrath
The focus for Year 4 will be developing student resilience by developing strategies for coping and bouncing back. The Year 4 lessons will focus on:
- People can bounce back, just as elastic things such as balls bounce back.
- Life has ups and downs but you can bounce back
- Bouncing back from injury or being ill
- Animals and plants can bounce back too
- Everybody experiences many changes in their lives.
- Bad times don't last. Things always get better. Stay optimistic.
- Other people can help if you talk to them. Get a reality check.
- Unhelpful thinking makes you feel more upset. Think again.
- Nobody is perfect – not you and not others.
- Concentrate on the good and funny bits in a not-so-good situations
- Everybody experiences sadness, hurt, failure, rejection and setbacks sometimes, not just you. Try not to personalise them. They are a normal part of life.
- Blame fairly. How much of what happened was due to you, to others and to bad luck or circumstances.
- Accept what can't be changed (but try to change what you can first).
- Catastrophising exaggerates your worries. Don't believe the worst possible picture.
- Keep things in perspective. It's only part of your life.