bert allain

Truthful Turtle This coping skills fable helps children understand the value of truthfulness. Truthfulness is a quality we want in our children. This fable illustrates that the ability to be truthful is not so much about avoiding punishment as it is about being brave, generous and kind. Being truthful is an excellent skill but can occur only if you have the “Good Thinking” skills to be brave, generous and kind.

Selfish Shellfish This coping skills fable allows "alerting" a child about to engage in selfish behavior. Selfishness seems to be part of our DNA. This short fable will help even young children recognize that being selfish or jealous of others are qualities that lead to unhappiness. There are some human characteristics that seem to be hardwired such as jealousy and selfishness. This fable uses the real life behavior of crabs to illustrate how ridiculous it is for any crab or person to be eit

The Trying Metal This coping skills fable is about learning to do the difficult and scary things in life that are necessary to be happy and successful. Sometimes a “trick” is more valuable than all the fussing, punishing and begging we do to try and change certain behaviors. The skill your child will learn in this fable is one of the greatest you can give them. Perfect for positive skills training in the classroom.

Beeing Mean to Me A coping skills fable that includes "Parent Notes" to help teach the material. Blaming others instead of taking personal responsibility will cause your child a lot of problems but there are “Good Thinking” skills to change this behavior rather than just punishing them. The social skill of accepting personal responsibility is often avoided by using the excuse “You are being mean to me”.

The 9 steps in this booklet will be your guide to understanding how to help all of your students develop the cognitive coping skills (good self-talk) that will help them be successful and happy in your classroom. Based on years of real world use of stories specifically designed to easily teach and maintain these skills. Many of these stories will be available on the TPT website.