Bring Peace to Your Child’s
New Family Life

It is essential for our well-being to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships. Benefits of healthy relationships include:

1. Emotional Support: Our friends, family, and acquaintances give us the supportive network we need. We can share joys, sorrows, and challenges together. Emotional support from loved ones helps us navigate life's ups and downs.
2. Personal Growth: Relationships offer opportunities for personal growth and self-reflection. Interacting with others helps us develop empathy, understanding, and emotional intelligence.
3. Health and Happiness: Healthy relationships contribute to overall well-being. We can have increased happiness, reduced stress levels, and improved mental and physical health.

Please think of your relationships. Please take a minute to journal the benefits you gain from people in your life.

James is a kind kid, but sometimes he doesn't show sympathy, probably because he doesn't know what it means yet! In this section James will interact with his brother, Miles, his parents, and his friend Corrie to learn what it means to be sympathetic towards others.

Learning to show sympathy in your relationships can help build trust and strengthen your connection.

If you are like James and you aren’t sure what sympathy is, this scene will help you!

It can be challenging dealing with emotional hot buttons, but there are several ways to manage them effectively.

First, identify your hot buttons by being aware of situations that make you upset or angry.

Second, calm your emotions with deep breathing or counting to ten when you feel highly emotional.

Third, talk about your feelings with a trusted friend, teacher, or parent; sharing your emotions can help you feel understood and less alone. Try to always speak from your own perspective. Do this by using “I” statements, like “I feel upset when…” to express how you feel.

Fourth, stay active through sports or hobbies to release built-up stress.

Fifth, keep a journal to write about your feelings, which can help you understand and manage them better.

These strategies can help you handle emotional hot buttons in a healthy way and improve your overall well-being.

1. Self Awareness involves recognizing aspects of who you are as a person. This includes what you think and feel, how you react, and importantly, why.

2. A good practice in developing self-awareness is focusing on your thoughts. What are you thinking? When do you have certain thoughts? Why do you have these thoughts? Are they productive or harmful?

3. We will begin with thinking about thinking. Our brains are the greatest supercomputers ever created. We have so many thoughts and we process them so quickly we are often unaware of their existence.

4. By learning to think about thinking we begin to focus on our thought life, which ultimately becomes our real life.