Lesson 9

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LESSON 9: The Pause Button
1) Get yourself into groups of five or six and create a scene, commercial, role play, poem or song that best illustrates the ideas behind The Pause Button

Girl comes home from school: I'm home.
She goes the living room and saw her cat spitting her goldfish into her fishbowl. Her goldfish was dead.
Girl starts crying: Bad cat. You are grounder for 2 months!
Cat: meow.
Cat runs toward girl's mom.
Girl's mom: What's wrong, honey? Why are you crying? You should calm down a bit and tell me about the problem.
Girl: Problem? I learned a new way to solve problems at school today. Look, PAUSE.
Girl thinks: Why would cat eat the fish? My cat wouldn't do that. She hates fish and only likes milk. Maybe fish jumped out, and cat was just putting her back.
Girl: Mom, our cat doesn't eat fish, right?
Girl's mom: Yes. But fish? what fish?
Girl points at dead fish.
Mom: Oh my, how did the fish get here? I just threw her in the toilet a while ago.
Girl: so cat wasn't eating fish! Good cat.
She pats the cat on the head.
Girl: press pause. It helps.
=D

2) Write in your journal about a quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.


Family reflections
LESSON 9: Decide on a family code word or phrase to remind each other to count to 10 before sinking into a "reactive rant zone." Post your Press Pause phrase on your fridge.
Hold on, pause, find a way.