Adaptability

How can you deal with new challenges?

• Make achievable goals, ask for help, take care of yourself, stay positive, and be eager to learn

• Blame others when things get tough

• Choose bad ways to handle problems

• Ignore problems and hope they disappear

What does it mean to be resilient when things change?

• Being resilient doesn't help at all when things change.

• Being resilient means you can adjust, get over tough times, and stay positive when things change.

• Being resilient makes it harder for you to deal with changes and challenges.

• Being resilient makes you feel bad and not want to deal with changes.

How can you calm down when you're feeling really stressed?

• Ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away

• Playing video games all day to forget about it

• Taking deep breaths and counting to ten

• Eating lots of candy and chips

How can we solve problems when we're not sure what to do?

• By figuring out what the problem is, thinking of different ways to solve it, choosing the best way, and then doing it.

• By not making any choices and letting someone else deal with it.

• By ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away on its own.

• By picking any solution without thinking if it's a good idea.

How are being flexible and being able to adapt related?

• Being flexible makes it harder to adapt.

• Being flexible means you can think of different ways to do things, and being adaptable means you can handle changes well.

• Being flexible and being able to adapt have nothing to do with each other.

• Being flexible is the same thing as being able to adapt.

How can you feel better when everything is changing and you're stressed?

• Doing calming activities, eating healthy, hanging out with friends, setting small goals, and taking deep breaths.

• Eating lots of candy and chips

• Ignoring what's bothering you

• Staying alone all the time

How can learning to adapt help you do better in school?

• By making it harder to bounce back from tough times and stopping you from wanting to learn more.

• By making it harder to solve problems on your own and making you depend more on others.

• By making it harder to manage your time and making you think you can't learn new things.

• By making it easier to solve problems, helping you bounce back from tough times, helping you manage your time better, and making you want to learn more.

What can you do if you're feeling sad about losing a game?

• Refuse to play ever again

• Blame someone else for the loss

• Try to learn from the experience

• Insist that you actually won

When you are feeling very angry, what is a good first step to help calm down?

• Yell at someone

• Take deep breaths

• Throw something

• Ignore the feeling

Why is it important to recognize your emotions?

• So you can ignore them

• To make others feel the same way

• It helps you understand yourself better

• Emotions are not important