This printable book helps children manage scared feelings when a crisis event happens. Events like shootings, fires, tornadoes and war can trigger feelings of fear, regardless of whether they happen close by or far away. Families can use this book in the home, while educators can use this class-made book in school as well as sending it home for families to read. This book teaches strategies based on the Five Steps for Self-regulation.

AGE

• 3 (with help) and up

HELPS WITH

• Self-regulation

USE

• Self-regulation tool appropriate for classroom or home
• May travel with child

FORMAT

• Instructions
• 15 – 8.5×11” single-sided color printouts

MATERIALS

• Printed I Can Handle Scared book pages
• Stapler
• Binder (optional)
• Hole punch (optional)
• Photos of child (optional)

RELATED RESOURCES

• Five Steps to Self-Regulation Icons
• Feeling Faces: Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared
• Putting Myself Together Class-Made Book
• Hitting Book
• Safe Place Breathing Icons
• I Can Handle Scared – Weather-related
• Choice Board with Breathing Icons(Premium)

RELATED PRODUCTS

• Self-Regulation Value Pack
• CLASSROOM EDITION: Feeling Buddies Self-Regulation Toolkit
• When I Feel… 
• T.A.R Breathing Tool

EXAMPLES OF THIS RESOURCE IN USE

• Conscious Discipline strategies and structures like breathing, the Safe Place, and Feeling Buddies can help children manage emotions like fear. To view photo and video examples, visit Shubert’s School and click on S.T.A.R, Safe Place, or Feeling Buddies Self-Regulation Toolkit.

Please remember that this book is a helpful addition to, not a replacement for, assistance from a mental health professional. If you or a child are struggling to regulate emotions or function in daily life, please seek help from a doctor, school counselor or other trained professional. There are also many helplines for those in need, including the SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress helpline at 1-800-985-5990 and the Crisis Text Line, reachable by texting HELLO to 741741.