Stop! Do You Know You’re Breathing?

STOP! DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE BREATHING? Simple Techniques for Teachers and Parents to Reduce Stress and Violence offers a variety of techniques to be used as tools by teachers, students, parents, and school administrators. Unique but easy to use, STOP! can be incorporated into anyone’s daily life to reduce fear, increase impulse control, delay gratification in healthy ways, improve overall health and well-being, and increase concentration. The added self-esteem that results from practicing this program helps decrease tension and acting out with negative actions such as alcohol and drug abuse. Not only does it introduce new skills for use in the classroom, it teaches techniques that the students can use anywhere, for the rest of their lives.