8 years – Low Self Esteem
Anny suffered from low self-esteem. She couldn’t see anything good about herself and she was convinced that she never succeeded with anything. During the recesses she was rude to other pupils calling them names and getting constantly into fights with them. Many attempts had been made to talk with Anny. She had been given warnings and she had been punished but there had been no change in her behavior.
Skill 1
When all the pupils in the class started to learn skills with the help of Kids’ Skills, Anny’s skill was to learn to come to the teacher, or another adult at school, once every day and to report one thing, that she felt she had succeeded with. Anny called her skill Princess-skill, because she admired teenage celebrities and princesses and anything that was pretty and girly.
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Practice
Practicing “Princess-skill” was difficult to Anny. During the first weeks she was unable to report any successes but with the help of her teacher she managed to write down some little thing every day into her Princess journal. When she had been practicing her skill for a few weeks, little by little Anny began to come up with some ideas of what she could write in her Journal.
Whenever she wrote something in her Princess journal, her teacher gave her a pretty embossed scrap that she could paste into her journal. When the Princess journal was filled, it was mutually agreed that Anny had acquired the “Princess Skill”.
Skill 2
When Anny’s teacher asked her, what would be her next skill to learn, she said it would be “Queen Skill”. This meant learning to tell adults good things not only about herself, but also about her classmates. Anny made slow progress in learning this skill, but soon enough the teacher heard from her supporters about her small successes. They told the teacher, that Anny had started to smile during recesses and that the arguments and badmouthing had diminished considerably.
Follow-up
Anny understood the idea of Kids’ Skills so well, that when she moved to another school the following year, her new teacher called the teacher of her previous school to ask what Anny might mean, when she kept asking her when can she begin learning a new skill. She had even given a name to her next skill. It was to be called “Cindy skill”.
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