How People Can help Me Calm Down Worksheet

Learning to manage big feelings is an essential skill for life. This unique worksheet helps identify what children need from others when emotions feel out-of-control. Featuring two columns - “Things That Help Me” and “Things That Make It Worse” - children reflect on positive and negative support strategies.

Childdren can write or draw their preferred calming techniques like deep breathing together, having time to cry or listening without judgment. The second column is for inputting well-intended but ineffective tactics that inadvertently escalate situations, this will be very personal to an individual child and it will be give them the chance to reflect on what really works for them in times of heightened emotions.

The worksheet builds self-awareness around triggers and fosters communication skills to ask for specific help. Teachers can incorporate it into social-emotional learning. Counselors may use it for sessions on anger management. Parents can fill it out with children to be ready for when tensions run high.

Instead of shame for losing control, kids gain agency over outbursts, try out new coping strategies, and rebuild strained relationships. Completed worksheets will then become handy guides for peers and adults on compassionate responses.

Simple yet incredibly impactful for mental health, this worksheet transforms insight into action plans for remaining calm. Students of all ages become empowered asking for the precise support they require when distressed.

This resource includes 2 version of the same PDF worksheet - one in color and one in black and white