Self-Control 2

Select the step that is not self-control.

• Tune into your body. Notice how you feel.

• Decide what happened to make you feel that way.

• Do what you want. Other people's feelings aren't as important as your feelings.

• Think of a calming strategy. Or: Think of an advocacy strategy.

You are excited to see a friend for the first time and want to do something to annoy them as a joke. What is a way you could interact with them that shows the most self-control?

• Annoy them, but if they say stop. Then stop.

• Don't annoy them, use a calming technique, then start a conversation.

• Don't talk to them. You might do something to bother them.

To tell some one what you want, or need, in a polite/calm way is to

(a)  

Self-control can help us

• get our work done and get help when we need it

• make and keep friends

• be more respected and seen as mature

• all of these

How will you use self-control this week?

You might write about how you will use self-control to:

-get your work done/stay focused

-act mature with peers and in school

-get unstuck and advocate for what you need