Ask your Super Dragonfly to explain their super power, flexible thinking. We the Super Dragonflies will defeat the Unthinkables including the #1 villain, Rock Brain.
SUPERFLEX®
This week we began a Superhero Social Thinking
Curriculum called Superflex. ® The
purpose of this curriculum is to provide an engaging tool to help your child
learn more about their own social behavior and strategies to regulate it. The
characters used within this curriculum star your child as a Super Dragonfly and
the Team of Unthinkables. Our Super Dragonflies hold a super power called
Flexible Thinking. By thinking of others and what they might need from us, we have
the ability to shift and change our thinking to keep everyone feeling good.
However, we are challenged by our ‘not-so-flexible’ thinking which ultimately
becomes our nemesis because we constantly have to regulate and adjust around
others even when one does not want to; this is essentially the social thinking.
The Unthinkables are the characters that represent these ‘not–so flexible’
thinking. They are our villains that we must defeat. The first of these
villains to represent the opposite of any flexible thinking is Rock Brain.
Rock
Brain
“Will get the person to do only what he has decided he
will do; he will not negotiate with other people. He is not a good problem
solver and tries one solution that’s not working over and over again. This
person may be very rule-bound and rigid in his thinking seeing only one to a solution”
He tends to get into peoples’ brains and cause us to
get stuck on our ideas. But thanks to our Super Dragonflies we came up with
some strategies. Here are the strategies that we came up in our KD meetings:
• NOTICE: what you are doing is not working and try again, “Make a
change happen”. “Can you come up with another solution?”
• REMEMBER: you are part of a group. Being part of a group means you
may not always get your way or be able to make your own decisions
• BREATHE: long deep breathes to find calm and your SUPER POWER, your flexibility
• SELF TALK: “No problem. I can do this another time”
• DEFEAT Rock Brain with FLEXIBLE THINKING!!
