Your Child CAN Make Friends!

Your child CAN make friends. They just need to learn skills and make goals that feel achievable and make sense, and the time and space to practice building that confidence to approach others.

A FREE course centered around helping your child approach other kids in friendship, challenge negative thoughts and mind reading, and start to think about the facets that make up our being: energy, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

This is an incredible sneak preview of what's to come in our Family Enrichment Curriculum: a 30 chapter-and-lesson program chock-full of printables, activities, and more!

What videos are included? 

Friendship Takes Courage

Chapter 1 of our full 30-Chapter series
A nervous Casey talks to his mom before bedtime about his fears for the first day of school. His mom reminds him that he’s gotten through similar experiences following rules in a group setting, and making friendship connections using the Three Simple Rules of Friendship.
  • Three Simples Rules of Friendship: Smile, chin up, say hello
  • Navigating social anxiety
  • Following rules in a new group setting

The Frightful First Day of School

Chapter 2 of our full 30-Chapter series
Casey is off to his first day of school. Though he’s nervous, he remembers what his mom said about the Three Simple Rules of Friendship. Casey meets his teacher, who shows the class an energy regulation exercise and asks the kids to introduce themselves.
  • Managing anxiety and self-talk before an event
  • Three Simple Rules of Friendship: Smile, chin up, say hello
  • Bringing our energy up or down to fit the situation

Get UP! Get Down Game

Bonus Video in Chapter 2
The Get UP! Get Down Game allows us to practice getting up our heart rates while dancing to music, and slowing our heart rates down while meditating. 
  • Bringing our energy up or down
  • Using movement to work out energy
  • Practicing calm breathing

The Befriending

Chapter 3 of our full 30-Chapter series
Casey is eager to make new friends but worries that he won’t have the courage to. He reconnects with an acquaintance named Bridget from the previous year and they make plans to play during recess.
  • Beginning a friendship with: smile, chin up, say hello
  • Putting emotions on a scale from Uncomfortable to Comfortable
  • Calming social anxiety

SCALE-ing Chant!

Bonus Video in Chapter 3
Practice the SCALE-ing Chant to learn the steps of regulation: S for Stop, C for Calculate, A for Act, L for Listen, and E for Evaluate. 
  • Stop: Take a moment to pause what you're doing to give yourself some headspace. 
  • Calculate: Think about where your energy, thoughts, emotions, or behaviors are on a scale of 1 to 7. 
  • Act: Use a skill to regulate your energy, thoughts, emotions, or behaviors.
  • Listen: Take a moment to listen to your body and what's around you to see if the skill worked. 
  • Evaluate: Did the skill work? If not, let's try a new skill. 

Casey, The Mind Reader

Chapter 4 of our full 30-Chapter series
Casey and Bridget want to add another friend to their imaginary play game at recess. As Casey approaches Isaac, a friend from last year, he “mind reads” that Isaac isn’t going to like him anymore.
  • Catching negative "mind reading" of what others think
  • Putting thoughts on a scale from Negative to Positive
  • Including others

The Great Rock of Friendship

Chapter 5 of our full 30-Chapter series
Casey gets invited to Isaac’s birthday party but learns that his best friend Bridget isn’t invited. He instantly worries that he’s going to be all alone at Isaac’s party because he doesn’t know any of the other kids! 
  • Putting friendship on a scale from Unfriendly to Friendly
  • Adding friendly "pebbles" to the Friendship Scale, like smiling or giving a compliment
  • Managing social anxiety before an event

Printables and Activities

Take a sneak preview at our Family Enrichment curriculum with the following included printables:

Take-Home Activities

  • Rules Rule!  (Home Activity 1)
  • Energy Matters (Home Activity 2)
  • Emotions in Motion (Home Activity 3)
  • Blank Feeling Cards (Home Activity 3)
  • Mind Reading (Home Activity 4)
  • Just Pebbles  (Home Activity 5)

Lesson Printables

  • Casey's Clubhouse Feeling Cards
  • Parent Lesson One: Changes
  • Parent Support Activity One: The Three R's of Change

Coloring Pages and Posters (8x11 or 11x14 downloads available)

  • Simple Rules of Friendship Poster
  • Friendship Takes Courage coloring page
  • The Great Rock of Friendship coloring page