Stories have long been used for teaching morals and developing character. Behavior Stories are developed from Social Stories and Success Stories. The stories focus on topics that are often difficult tasks and social situations for children. The stories break down a task or social situation into smaller steps. Often children benefit from visual reminders of what to do next. Discussions on the children’s feelings, actions, and choices are a way to develop good decision making. With technological improvements, videos, eBooks, video games and hand-held devices become common delivery methods for teaching these skills. For example, if a child is having trouble in building the habit of brushing their teeth before breakfast, his parent can refer to the “Getting Ready for School” story to reinforce that brushing their teeth is the first activity in their morning routine. This becomes a fun and meaningful way to learn.
Social Skills
Waiting
Discuss various situations that you have to wait, and how to wait.
Talking
Discuss being a good conversationalist including taking turns, listening, maintaining personal space, and making eye contact.
Making friends
Discuss strategies for making friends including helping others, taking turns, inviting others to play, listening in conversations, and trying new activities.
sharing
Discuss sharing your views as well as listening to, understanding, and respecting another person's point of view. How to respond when someone refuse to share.
My space, your space
Discuss appropriate personal space during conversations as well as appropriate personal space based on relationships, and examples of people the child should and should not hug
Winning & losing
Discuss one’s feelings when win or lose, how to express in a proper way, and how others feel.
Giving & getting help
Discuss under what situation you will need help, and how to offer help. How to ask for help and how others feel when you offer help.
Working together
Discuss working with others including listening, sharing ideas, and helping. Discusses how to treat others, think before you act and speak, resolving conflict, and responding appropriately to emotions (angry, sad, and excited). Strategies when own idea is not selected.
Playing together
Discuss taking turns, following the rules, respecting others, and showing good sportsmanship.
Showing respect
Discuss respect for yourself, other people, rules, and objects across a variety of settings.
Emotion
Feeling angry
Discuss how to cope with a variety of frustrating situations such as trying new activities, completing work, and dealing with schedule changes.
Feeling sad
Discuss feeling sad and recognizing it. Shows appropriate responses for managing sadness.
Feeling scared
Discuss appropriate reactions to scary situations such as loud noises, new places, nightmares, and unkind people.
Feeling anxious
Discuss situations that cause anxiety, and how to cope with the emotion.
Feeling happy
Discuss the happy feeling and how to express the emotion, identifying the experiences that make people happy.
Going Places
Take MTR and buses
Discuss rules and behavior in taking MTR and buses, including using tickets (Octopus), waiting in line, riding on, taking seats, congested space.
Go to superstore
Discuss going to the grocery store including staying near an adult, helping, following a shopping list, using a shopping cart and waiting at the check out.
Go to doctor
Discuss a trip to the doctor's office including waiting for an appointment, receiving a shot, and having a check-up.
Go to restaurant
Discuss the proper table manner when eating outside, register at entrance, talk and eat quietly, remain at seat after eating, keep table clean, ordering of food and paying.
Self Care
Clean and tidy
Discuss critical skills for staying clean and healthy including washing your hands, bathing, wearing clean clothes, brushing your teeth and hair, and using a tissue.
Use the bathroom
Discuss steps for using the bathroom including knocking on and closing the door, using toilet paper, flushing, and washing hands as well as using bathrooms in the community.
Wash hand, blow nose
Discuss under what situation need to wash hand, reason for washing hand, when and how to blow the nose.
Try new food
Discusses trying new foods, including at home and at school.
Bullies
Discusses bullying including who is a bully. Strategies to avoid being bothered and how to react to bullies.
Rules & Routines
Facing changes
Discuss feelings associated with change and ways to cope with it, including changing activities and changing schedules at home and school.
Answering questions
Discuss how to respond to questions: if know the answer, and if do not know the answer. Take turn in answering. Organize the wording before answer. Answer to what is asked.
Classroom behavior
Discuss following rules in the classroom and school.
School rules
Discuss listening and following directions at school.
