About this pack
The Activity Pack is the teen companion to The At Home Life Skills Guide. Each worksheet matches one weekly parent session and gives your child a private place to reflect, write, and track growth.
Print the pages or fill them in digitally. Keep them in a folder or notebook so you can look back at progress over all eight weeks.
All 8 sessions
- What's Going On Inside
- Putting Feelings Into Words
- Staying Steady When Feelings Are Big
- Understanding How Others Feel
- Conflict Is Normal
- Knowing Your Conflict Style
- Staying Calm and Listening
- Speaking Up & Making Repairs
What's on each worksheet
"Why do feelings matter?"
- One word for how today felt, and why
- Where you notice feelings in your body
- Feelings word storm, go past good, bad, and fine
- Someone who handles feelings well
- Challenge: Notice when a feeling changed what you did
"Is 'fine' really how I feel?"
- Spot the difference: annoyed vs. furious, nervous vs. terrified
- Two feelings at once
- My feelings menu, 6 words you'd actually use
- Challenge: Three day feelings log with specific words
"What's the space between feeling and doing?"
- Warning signs before you lose your cool
- React vs. respond, a time you wish you'd paused
- My calm down toolkit (3 to 5 things that help)
- Challenge: Use one toolkit tool during stress
"Can I really know what someone else feels?"
- Reading the clues, face, tone, posture
- Sympathy vs. empathy
- A time you misread someone
- Perspective swap on a recent disagreement
"Is all conflict a bad thing?"
- How conflict feels to you
- Disagreement vs. argument vs. fight
- Where conflict shows up most (home, friends, school, online)
- Challenge: Notice what a conflict was really about
"Do I fight, freeze, flee, or fix?"
- The four styles: avoiding, competing, accommodating, collaborating
- My style map with friends, adults, and online
- Upside and cost of your most used style
"Am I listening, or waiting to talk?"
- What being truly heard feels like
- What stops you from listening when upset
- One question you could ask instead of arguing
- Restate the other person's side fairly
"What happens after the argument?"
- Passive vs. aggressive vs. assertive communication
- Write an "I feel ___ when ___ because ___" statement
- Parts of a genuine apology
- My support list, who to turn to when conflict is too big
You did it
Eight sessions is real work, be proud of it. The final page asks: One skill from this pack I want to keep practicing. That's the whole point, small reps that stick.
