The Coping Skills Game: Nine Essential Skills to Teach Kids How to Deal with Real-Life Problems

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The Coping Skills Game provides children with tools for emotional self-care. Children will learn to deal with feelings, adjust attitudes, discover choices, accept imperfections, and more. The game presents real-life situations and makes dealing with them fun. Participants learn to identify and accept their feelings, verbalize their needs, and to have them met in an acceptable manner, instead of acting them out dangerously or disruptively. They know how to use a microwave or a laptop computer, but they don’t know how to calm themselves down when they are frustrated. They may know how to navigate through the latest app and game on a phone, but they don’t know how to deal with sadness or loss, disappointment, or stress. The Coping Skills Games was designed to help instill Children with basic tools for emotional self-care. These children know how to use a microwave, computer, video games become “street smart”, do not know how to calm