Paage 1
When you’re dealing with a streful situation or going through a hard time, people in your life can help you.When someone who cares knows what you’re going through, it helps you feel understood and not so alone.Having a right person means a lot.Problems seem smaller when you talk about them with the right person.You can do better and find out solutions more easily when you share your problems.
There are lots of different ways to get and give help.Sometimes you just want to hear an encouraging word.Other times you need advice on things.Help can be very easy, like a homework project.Or it can go on for a while, like teaching to bring up a failing grade or advising to get through a difficult situation.
It’s likely you remember times someone helped you.Parents taught you to stop a bad habit.Friends helped you get through sadne or deal with disappointment.Teachers might have guided you through the college application proce.And you can also remember times when you helped others.You might give a hand to your clamate who met difficulty.
Friends, parents,teachers and other adults can be great resources when you need help.There are also times when you need the extra help that a profeional can provide best.Doctors can offer specialized help for a health problem.Turn to the profeional people for help when you need.
Paage 2
One of my favorites as a young girl was writing.I found that it was a great way to expre what I was feeling.I actually wrote journals as early as my first grade.I find them amusing to look at now.I even read some to my son.I noticed that he actually started doing the same thing.He came to me the other day and wanted to read me a story he had written——“Sponge Bob Square Pants and His Friends”.
As he sat there and read it aloud to me, it brought a big smile to my face for I saw myself in him.Recently his school held auditions for a talent show and he was really interested in it.I remembered him asking me,“Mom, what is my talent?” I asked him to list all of the things that he enjoyed doing.He said reading was at the top, followed by drawing, writing and playing Super Mario Brothers.So I asked him, “What can you do combine some of those things that people would enjoy watching?”
He disappeared into his room for a while and I began to get a little worried.I knew how embarraed he got performing in front of the big crowds.I heard him rushing down the stairs with excitement.
“I can do a puppet show, Mom!” He showed me what he had come up with while in his room.He called it, “Yoshi Goes to Africa.” What a great idea I thought to myself.I found a puppet show tent online and cleaned up some old puppet friends for him.My son was the only boy who entered the talent show at his school and he won the second place.I was so proud of him.
