🤝 Personal & Social Development · Self-Regulation & Resilience
Choosing the Right Coping Strategy
Understand that different situations require different coping strategies — what works for anger might not work for sadness, and what helps at school might be different from what helps at home
Typical age: 7–9 years
“Can your child recognise that when they're angry they need to do something physical like walk around, but when they're worried they need to talk it through — rather than using the same approach for every difficult feeling?”
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Needs first
- Vocabulary: resilience and selfREQUIRED
Distinguishing different coping strategies requires the vocabulary of regulation, triggers, and distress
- Simple Calming StrategiesREQUIRED
Different coping strategies builds on knowing basic calming strategies
- How Emotions Feel in Your Body
Choosing coping strategies benefits from reading body-emotion signals