Take Kids from Stressed to Success

Name: Take Kids from Stressed to Success
Rating: 3.9 (2 reviews)

Adults discover powerful ways to teach kids important lessons about stress using cartoons from a special children's book

Created byDeb Lewis

Last updated 6/2021

English

What you'll learn

Make it easier for families and classrooms with elementary age kids to talk about stress & strong emotions
Offer adults helpful ways to work with kids to overcome obstacles and handle stress better
Highlights the importance to face stress with confidence, kindness, creativity, and love for others
Example: Help kids stay centered and focused in situations that easily induce stress, panic or negativity

Course content

6 sections • 6 lectures • 1h 14m total length

Video 1 of 6: Intro: Take Kids from Stressed to Success4:27
Welcome to our course: "Stress Basics - Help Kids Stay Positive and Loving". One 5-year-old summed up the story saying, "Pono was angry because all of the people were mean to him. Kuleana helped him get better. She showed him love and respect." An e-book and audio book are included in the course.

This course is designed to offer proven ways to help kids deal with stress better. Families, teachers, and friends now have an effective tool to share important life lessons about different types of stress, and maintaining love and respect. Kids learn powerful strategies to handle stress using the story and fun cartoon images in a children’s book set in Hawai'i.

Instead of thinking that stress is bad and triggering kids to lash out at others, go silent or run away, this course makes it easier for adults and young adults to help kids realize their full potential in stressful situations and creatively support each other to manage stress levels.

"Stress Basics - Help Kids Stay Positive and Loving" uses the book, “Why is Pono not Pono Today?” and three Hawaiian words. Replace a child or adult's name for Pono in the title to reveal that stressful life events can affect our normal happy selves at any moment. This story shows how love, creativity, and working closely together leads to successful outcomes in tough situations. It also reveals it can start with something as simple as a smile and as powerful as the Spirit of Aloha.

We've added layers of meaning within the powerful story to enhance the learning and teaching experience using this book to improve stress skills of kids of all ages who read it with an optimal focus on Elementary School level. Adults and older kids can read to children who may not read yet, but quickly memorize the story and characters. Discover new perspectives on stress with powerful strategies, insights, and tools found in the story and every image.

Lots of reasons cause children and adults to become frustrated, short-tempered, and stressed out. Each of our six course videos is designed to inspire the listener to be kind, loving, and creative when dealing with stressful moments. When kids apply these lessons, confidence grows and they learn to handle stress better, feel happier, and achieve more.

Video 1 of 6 of this series offers an overview with insights into how this book is designed to help teachers, families, and friends train kids to handle stress. “Why is Pono not Pono Today? is book where kids of all ages easily identify with the normally happy Pono the Bull. Pono snaps after others are mean to him but his friend Kuleana helps to quickly bring back the best in Pono. Here, tough situations end well through love, creativity, and working closely together. The next Lecture will include a resource of the e-book version and audio book of the story for your use.

Thank you for joining us to help our children confidently handle more stress, able to turn life's disadvantages into advantages in today's stress-filled world.

Be excited for what's next!
❤️ Deb

Video 2 of 6: Create a Better Experience: Pono Book Design10:07
Video 2 of 6 of this series shares how this book is designed to help families handle stress and to create a better experience when reading to others. This story has the power to assist you in keeping stressful situations from holding children back in life and at school. Whatever setbacks or challenges we face, we can choose to help each other quickly return to our best.
You'll also receive an ebook and audio book version to follow along with. This book is only authorized and intended for the student's use.
May our book bring you greater understanding of stress leading to better choices and more joy with your students in and out of the classroom.

Video 4 of 6 Lesson Ideas for Each Story Image22:17
Video 4 of 6 of this series shares how individual images in the story have multiple layers of meaning, stress skill levels, and valuable lessons. The story sequence breaks down, brings insights, and simplifies what is happening in stressful moments. It’s easy to forget we must override powerful, natural programming so we can handle stress better and bring out the best in everyone. It also takes tremendous courage and discipline to reap the greatest rewards when dealing with stress.

Video 6 of 6 Recorded session presentation to schoolteachers21:16
Video 6 of 6 in this series is a recorded session with teachers covering the overview of the course and key points. It begins with the powerful story of a young student who is both stressed and upset, but who quickly responds to the book. She forgets why she was upset in the first place, just like Pono. How well we handle stress determines our success in life. With this book, you will be ready to help children use stress to their advantage and happily achieve more in life by working together.

Requirements

Willing to learn, model behaviors, apply these lessons in a classroom, home setting, and everyday life
Eager to pursue better outcomes for kids, teachers, parents, families, and communities under stress

Description

Without stress management skills, challenging situations can hijack our best efforts at any age. "Take Kids from Stressed to Success," based on the children’s book “Why is Pono not Pono Today?”, offers vital lessons for families, teachers, and friends to help kids handle stressful times with love and respect.

Through fun cartoon images, kids learn powerful stress strategies—from simple smiles to embodying the Spirit of Aloha. This course dives into the deeper meanings and stories behind the book’s cartoons, providing adults with tools to teach kids why it's important to respond positively when someone is stressed.

Set in Hawai‘i, the book's lovable characters, Pono the Bull and his friend Kuleana, demonstrate how stressful situations can end happily. Young children enjoy the memorable story, while older kids and adults uncover deeper insights woven into every page.

Designed for adults working with elementary school kids, this course includes six videos that inspire kindness, creativity, and effective stress management. The last video includes a powerful example of how the book helped one student. With new perspectives and practical tools, kids gain the confidence to handle stress better, feel happier, and achieve more.

Paperback books are available wherever books are sold. Join us and help kids transform stress into success. Aloha!

Who this course is for:

Beginners who are teachers, parents, caregivers, abuse-shelter staff who are ready for something better than allowing stress to control their life and anyone they care about
Parents, teachers, adults and young adults who want to teach kids how to be Mentally Tough and happy in a stressful world
Anybody who wants to learn what it takes to be stronger and make better choices in the face of adversity, fear, and uncertainty
Anybody who wants better outcomes taught through stories that offer immediate stress relief, greater clarity and control in situations that frustrate kids

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Introduction: Take Kids from Stressed to Success1 lecture • 4min

Create a Better Experience: Pono Book Design1 lecture • 10min

3 Powerful Hawaiian Words Explain Stress Dynamics in Pono’s Story1 lecture • 12min

Lesson Ideas for Each Story Image1 lecture • 22min

Looking Ahead To Use The Pono Book1 lecture • 4min

Powerful Example of Using the Pono Book in the Classroom and Course Takeaways1 lecture • 21min

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