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Mental health issues can be hard for children to understand. We can’t always see if someone is mentally healthy or unhealthy, but understanding that mental health issues are very real health concerns can help us support loved ones who struggle with them. Understanding mental health issues can also give us the courage to speak up when we don’t feel as well as we could. This illuminating and humorous cartoon is designed to encourage thinking and discussions about how to support people with mental health challenges. Rocketoons Episode 9: Marv or Myth - Talking About Mental Health can start Cartoonversations to help kids talk about how mental health issues are very real and what we can do to be good listeners and friends.
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Rocketoons encourage kids to think and talk about essential life skills and social-emotional learning topics. Episode 8 - Resilience uses tardigrades - the world's most resilient creatures - to help kids understand the importance of a growth mindset. This engaging and inspiring cartoon is designed to encourage thinking and discussions about what to do when things don't go our way. Mindfulness, gratitude, and asking for help are just a few of the ideas brought up in this animated video to help kids learn how to navigate through adversity. Watch Rocketoons Episode 8: Making the Grade - Resilience and use the Rocketoons Cartoonversation™ Card to help your kids discover the many ways they can build resilience and succeed.
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It might sound like great fun to skip school, until you realize the damaging consequences. Truancy, which is any unexcused absence from school, causes kids to fall behind in school, and falling behind can lead to low self-esteem and depression. Kids who skip school regularly are more likely to experiment with drugs, drop out and not graduate, and get in other kinds of trouble. Episode 7: Hop, Skip, and a Jump - Truancy is an award-winning and fact-packed animated cartoon designed to encourage thinking and discussions about the troubles caused by skipping school. Watch the cartoon and use the Rocketoons Cartoonversation™ Card to help your kids talk about how skipping school puts them on a dangerous and challenging path. For help getting started refer to our step-by-step guide "Getting Started With Rocketoons." Rocketoons are free - there are no passwords, memberships, or subscriptions!
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Nobody likes a bully.
In fact, many bullies don't even like being a bully. So what can we do to take bullying out of the picture? Like most subjects, the more we know, the more we can do.
Winner of FOUR animation and education awards, Rocketoons Episode 3 - BULLYVISION is a thought-provoking cartoon designed to encourage thinking and discussions on the different forms of bullying, bullies, and solutions to end bullying. Watch Rocketoons Episode 3: Bullyvision to help your kids discover the different forms bullying can take and what they can do to help stop it.
In fact, many bullies don't even like being a bully. So what can we do to take bullying out of the picture? Like most subjects, the more we know, the more we can do.
Winner of FOUR animation and education awards, Rocketoons Episode 3 - BULLYVISION is a thought-provoking cartoon designed to encourage thinking and discussions on the different forms of bullying, bullies, and solutions to end bullying. Watch Rocketoons Episode 3: Bullyvision to help your kids discover the different forms bullying can take and what they can do to help stop it.
| | Our three friends may live in the tiny world of a microscope slide, but they have a good understanding of what bullying is. They can tell us about four different types of bullying, and they can help us start this crucial conversation. They have even brought in some familiar looking friends to help tell the story. |
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| Children need more sleep than adults. Sleep supports their rapid development - both physical and mental. It can be hard to tell if your child is getting enough sleep because tired children don’t slow down the same way adults do. Sometimes they wind up. You may have experienced the hyperactivity associated with overly tired kids. It often looks like ADHD. Certain conditions may affect a child’s ability to sleep. Always check with your pediatrician if you suspect your child is not getting enough sleep. How much is enough? |  |
Every child is unique and different, but the table below is an excellent guideline to reference:
Here are a few tips we found from HealthyChildren.org - a site from the American Academy of Pediatrics - to help establish good sleeping habits:
- 0-3 months - 14 to 17 hours
- 4-11 months - 12 to 15 hours
- 1-2 years - 11 to 14 hours
- 3-5 years - 10 to 13 hours
- 6-13 years - 9 to 11 hours
- 14-17 years - 8 to 10 hours
- 18 to 25 years - 7 to 9 hours
Here are a few tips we found from HealthyChildren.org - a site from the American Academy of Pediatrics - to help establish good sleeping habits:
Wheeler Creative Studios has underwritten and designed a fifteen-episode series of cartoons designed to help children identify and talk about stressful situations or issues in their lives. When kids can speak up about what stresses them out, teachers, psychologists, parents, and caregivers can readily identify the kids in need of intervention. The mission of Rocketoons is to rescue childhood and make sure every kid is safe, secure, and silly.
This month on the blog, we’ll be outlining each episode to help you understand what these cartoons are all about. Starting with this short video that explains our vision, our mission, and also - what the kids think about Rocketoons!
This month on the blog, we’ll be outlining each episode to help you understand what these cartoons are all about. Starting with this short video that explains our vision, our mission, and also - what the kids think about Rocketoons!
| | Rocketoons are cartoon-based conversation kits designed to give teachers maximum instructional flexibility with minimal interference from time-consuming preparation. Rocketoons are pedagogically sound primers for facilitating important discussions in the 21st-century classroom. Rocketoons are developed by teachers and counselors, and they are used by teachers and counselors – in the classroom, in one on one sessions, or wherever there is a need to share sound information and stimulate meaningful conversation. If you have four or five minutes, you can use Rocketoons with your kids. |
If you want/need to develop an in-depth module on bullying, divorce, social media, or a variety of other timely topics that cause stress and disruption in the lives of your students, you can use Rocketoons.
If you want to make a point, share a laugh, or both, you can use Rocketoons.
From one kid to the next, from one teacher to the next, different Rocketoons mean different things. In the hands of caring and qualified teachers, that’s the way it should be. Nobody knows your kids like you do. Hopefully, Rocketoons can be exactly what you need them to be so you can be exactly what your students need you to be.
If you want to make a point, share a laugh, or both, you can use Rocketoons.
From one kid to the next, from one teacher to the next, different Rocketoons mean different things. In the hands of caring and qualified teachers, that’s the way it should be. Nobody knows your kids like you do. Hopefully, Rocketoons can be exactly what you need them to be so you can be exactly what your students need you to be.
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