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Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award!
When you're a child, it's not easy controlling your impulse reactions - kids do things before they think all the time. Strengthen executive function skills and empower impetuous young people with a humorous story about an impulsive third grader. Teach students a strategy of four simple steps for stopping, thinking, decision-making, and choosing the right behavior.
Third-grader Braden is a real character. He loves to be the center of attention. Braden thinks his jokes and quick reactions impress his classmates. But when his humor disrupts class and an impulsive choice during dodgeball hurts a classmate, he learns why it matters to stop and think before acting.
Braden's teachers and parents start working with him on how to control his impulses, teaching him steps to follow before saying or acting on an urge, intrusive thought, or any idea that may land him in hot water.
Will the lessons provided by the adults in Braden's life help him see a better way to manage his impulses? Find out in this hilarious story, the first book in the Executive FUNction series by author and school counselor Bryan Smith.
Tips for parents and educators are included at the end of the storybook to help children learn to control their impulses.
Extend the story with four downloadable impulse-control activities for classroom discussion, writing, and practice.
Keep the four impulse-control steps visible with the downloadable classroom Poster.
Teaching more than impulse control? Explore the 10-book Executive FUNction series for planning, flexibility, focus, and self-management:
Published by Boys Town Press
ISBN: 978-1-934490-96-9
Juvenile Fiction
Full Color Illustrations
31 pages
Softcover, 9"x9"
Grades K-5; Ages 5-11
