Challenges and Strategies

We are learning to write down our fears and strategies to help us at camp. In Room 8 we all have challenges we will face at camp. This is my writing about my fears and what strategies to use at camp.

Challenges:

• Missing my home and family

1. People invading my privacy

Strategies:

• Talk to Anna
• Remind myself that it’s only 3 days

1. Tell the teacher when it does happen
2. Tell that person my I statements and ask why they did it

My Challenges

The word “fear” means and unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. At camp others are afraid of what their going to eat and not being able to work together. My biggest fear is missing my family, and people invading my privacy. These fears only occur when i’m going out to a faraway place, away from home for more than just  1 day with people that I haven’t went outside the school with. The reason why i’m scared to leave home is because I haven’t left my parents’ side and i’m afraid something might happen to them while i’m away. My second fear are my friends opening the curtains while i’m taking a shower or changing. Also they might go through my stuff and take out all my things and either take them (steal them) or show other people also I know that I have been there and I have confidence to shout at other people but when it’s my turn to do that activity I get really nervous that some of the year 8 boys might laugh at me when i’m doing the activities.      

My Strategies

The word “Strategy” means a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim because these fears have been with me for a long time I need to come up with strategies to help me get over these fears just in case I go to camp in college. The strategies I will use to get over my fear of missing my parents are to talk to Anna about my fear and see what she can do to help me and to always remind myself to not worry because they’ll still be home when I get there. The strategies I will be using for getting rid of my privacy fear is to tell the teacher when it happens and to say my I Statements and let them know that it is not nice to do that to other people because “What goes around, comes around”. If I can get rid of these fears while we're at camp I can start feeling confident when going to camp.