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Social stories help kids anticipate and plan for big emotions before they hit. By naming feelings like sadness or anger and pairing them with concrete coping strategies, children feel prepared and have fewer reactive outbursts.
Social stories help kids anticipate and plan for big emotions before they hit. By naming feelings like sadness or anger and pairing them with concrete coping strategies, children feel prepared and have fewer reactive outbursts.
Social stories are a great way to build pre-regulation skills, meaning we're going to start talking about our feelings before we even feel them, validating those feelings, being prepared ahead of time. Social stories really help with this. It's okay to feel sad, it's okay to feel angry, and here are some things I can do when I feel those emotions.
