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Worksheet
When dealing more e ec vely with the owl, allow your child to use the Crow’s statements or any of their own that challenge the Owl. “What makes him so smart?” “If others can do it so can I.”
They should see that if the Young Girl told herself these Good Thinking ideas, she would be less concerned about ruining the garden (shame and embarrassment). But it would be ne if some children are s ll cau ous and were s ll a li le scared about how to handle this type of manipula on. It would be very ra onal to have some anxiety about doing something (changing the garden) when you have no experience doing it.
Once again, change is what she should be willing to do but not necessarily risking everything. She can leave some of the garden as collards. You are trying to teach asser ve thinking but many will s ll want to compromise and not risk everything. This thinking is be er than not doing anything for fear of total failure.
As before, when Young Girl uses Good Thinking, she is not being mean and should not feel bad.
1. What Good Thinking could the Young Girl have had when the Owl told her that everything in the garden would die if she changed the garden?
(Help them come up with ra onal ideas...like that of Cosmos)
2. What OK emo ons would go with this Good Thinking?
(Your audience should recognize that the Young Girl might be a fearful or
concerned. They may say she would feel okay. You want them to recognize that with Good Thinking, she would not feel foolish)
3. What could have been her Thumbs Up behavior?
(For this ques on, a compromise is ne...leave some collards... but she will change some of her garden)
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