- SPECIAL OFFER: Little Tin Collection of 4
SPECIAL OFFER: Little Tin Collection of 4
By Eve Wilson
Discussion cards to tackle the growing levels of anxiety in young people
This Pack contains:
- Little Tin of Big Worries
- Little Tin of Teenage Worries
- Little Tin of Transition Worries
- Little Tin of Niggles
LITTLE TIN OF BIG WORRIES:
The card set outlines 70 common worries for discussion, grouped into five main areas:
- Friendship
- Home and family
- School and society
- Personal
- The world around
Examples include:
Being alone, Falling out with a friend, No one talking to you, Moving home, Loss of a family member, Parents splitting up, Family arguing, Serious illness, Your appearance, Money, Knowing what to do in an emergency, Forgetting someone’s name, Losing things, A new school or situation, Having to talk in front of people, Not having the right clothes, Not being able to do your work, Being blamed for something you didn’t do, Breaking something, Having to ask for help, Forgetting things, People making fun of you, A fight, Looking silly in front of people, Not being liked, Making new friends, Bullies, Saying something you wished you hadn’t, Things on TV and lots more. There’s even a “?” card for you to add your own worry.
There are also six strategy cards with ideas on how to handle the concerns and to help players decide on an appropriate way to tackle each individual worry. The strategies are:
- Asking for help
- Looking for the positive
- Taking preventative action
- Realising when it is someone else’s worry
- Finding information
- Knowing when a worry needs to be discarded
To use the Little Tin of Big Worries lay the six Solution Cards out on the table and discuss the meaning of each. Then place the Worry Cards in a pile face down and the children/young people take it in turns to pick up the top card, discuss the worry, and decide on which Solution Card is the most relevant.
The cards can be used across a wide spectrum of ages and situations as each user interprets the worries in their own way and will relate them to their own experiences. Many worries are applicable to every phase of our lives e.g. bullying can be found in the nursery, primary school, secondary school, college and the workplace.
Contents: 70 worry cards, 6 solution cards, guidance notes
LITTLE TIN OF TEENAGE WORRIES
In addition to the popular Little Tin of Big Worries also available is the Little Tin of Teenage Worries aimed specifically at teenagers and the issues they face. The cards address 70 common teenage worries grouped into seven main areas:
- Social networking
- Peer pressure
- Personal issues
- The world around
- Home and family
- Relationships
- Career and working life
Examples include:
· Becoming a victim of cyber-bullying · How to get contraception without anyone knowing · Having spots or acne · Getting enough Facebook friends · Finding a job · Parents splitting up · Leaving home · Constant tiredness · Financial worries · Wearing the wrong clothes · Getting into trouble at school · Drinking alcohol · Having sex · Getting an STI and not knowing what to do · An unplanned pregnancy · Being laughed at · A parent losing their job · Staying away from home · Getting good enough grades · Not finding a boyfriend or girlfriend · Being too tall or short · Struggling with schoolwork · Violence in the street · Being attacked · Falling out with a friend · Being a hospital patient · Getting into an argument · Choosing the right college or uni · Violent films · Having the wrong phone · Getting into debt · Being called names · Stranger danger · Peer pressure to do things I don’t want to · Going to parties · Getting in trouble with the police · Having to speak in front of a large group · Getting into a fight · Taking drugs.
There are also seven strategy cards with ideas on how to handle the concerns and to help players decide on an appropriate way to tackle each individual worry. The strategies are:
- Can I ask someone for help?
- Are there any positives to this?
- Do I have all the facts or do I need more information?
- How likely is this to happen?
- Is it my worry or does it belong to someone else?
- Is there anything I can do to stop this happening?
- Let it go
To use the Little Tin of Teenage Worries lay the seven Solution Cards out on the table and discuss the meaning of each. Then place the Worry Cards in a pile face down and the players take it in turns to pick up the top card, discuss the worry, and decide on which Solution Card is the most relevant.
These cards are ideal for a range of establishments in addition to schools and colleges as although they cover everyday issues that all teenagers face, carefully selected cards can also be used to tackle a variety of mental health problems. The cards can be used with an individual student who is suffering from anxiety or for groups asking each student to find the best solution to the worry. What also works well is to pair up the students with one being the ‘worrier’ and the other being the ‘adviser’. You could also have a third person being an ‘observer’ who listens and makes notes and reports back to the rest of the class. There are teachers’ notes to explain these different uses of the cards.
Contents: 70 worry cards, 7 solution cards, teachers’ notes
LITTLE TIN OF TRANSITION WORRIES
The experience of changing schools – either from primary to secondary or as a result of relocation – can trigger anxiety and stress for many pupils. This set of cards provides an opportunity to identify, examine and tackle specific areas of concern to ensure that the experience can become as worry-free as possible.
Each card outlines a cause for concern, for example:
- People won’t like me
- The work will be too hard
- I won’t be able to find the classroom
- How do I make new friends?
Pupils will then be able to consider their options and share their ideas, so helping them through this potentially difficult time.
70 worry cards 90 x 130 mm, 7 option cards, teachers’ notes which offer suggestions for use with large groups, small groups and individuals, storage tin.
LITTLE TIN OF NIGGLES
Little niggles are small seeds of most big problems: they cause breakdowns in relationships, lead to a lack of task focus, can be the cause of major physical fights and are long-term stressors. We all face them every day and handling them is a crucial life skill. Little niggles are particularly powerful in the classroom as they distract both students and teacher, give rise to negative feelings and can potentially flare up into major incidents.
This set of cards presents real issues that students have themselves identified, outlined and confirmed. Learning to recognise personal ‘niggles’ provides an opportunity to evolve effective strategies to deal with issues appropriately as they arise.
Subjects include:
- Someone borrows my equipment without asking
- Being blamed for someone else’s mistakes
- Being excluded from a group
70 niggles cards, 7 options cards, teachers’ notes which offer suggestions for use with large groups, small groups and individuals, storage tin.