Button Explanation:

• Mute Button - Listening Skills: turns off our voice. When our voice is turned off, we can listen to others. Listening helps keep us safe, helps us learn, and most importantly shows respect to others. 

• Zapper Button - Positive Thinking Skills: zaps away the unkind or hurtful words we hear from others or ourselves and reminds us about the good things and people in our lives. Using positive self-talk helps us feel good about ourselves. When we feel good about ourselves, we can make better choices. 

• Pause Button - Anger Management Skills: stops our body and gives us time to cool down. We recognize how our body feels when we are upset. We pick a calm down strategy like roller coaster breathing or counting to ten. We pause to get under control before solving the problem that led to mad feelings. 

• Talker Button - Communication Skills: button helps us use our words to talk through a problem in a respectful way. Our tone of voice can help us solve a problem or can make the problem worse. We want our voice to sound calm and not like a monster, but not too quiet that no one listens to us. 

• Fast Forward Button - Decision Making Skills: helps us stop and think about what will happen after we make a choice. We think about what will happen next so we can choose actions that get us consequences we like instead of outcomes or consequences we do not like or want.

• Rewind Button - Taking Responsibility for our Actions: helps us go back and fix our mistakes. When we make a mistake, we need to admit it, not blame others for our actions, apologize for the mistake, fix what we can, learn from it, and try again to make better choices. 

• Filter Button - Decoding Social Setting Skills: helps us recognize when it is the right time and place to let our private thoughts out of our mouth into words. When we filter, we think about whether what we want to say is appropriate for the situation and place. Our words should be true, helpful, kind and match the setting.

• Power Button - Problem Solving Skills: reminds us that we can use our kind words and helpful thoughts to be a problem solver. We can see the difference between problems we can handle ourselves and problems that need adult help. 

• Safety Button - Recognize Safe and Unsafe Actions: helps us listen to the “oh no” feeling in our body. We do not let strangers trick us. We wear our seatbelts and protective sporting gear. We follow the touching rule. We know the adults in our life that we can trust to talk to when we feel unsafe. 

• Choices Button - Our Power of Control: reminds us that we are in control of our words and actions. Even if our classmate or friend makes a poor choice, we can make a positive choice. We are in charge of our own controller.