Looking Around Helps Me Stay Safe [21 Thinking Questions Included]

Ms. Moon | Over the Moon Wellness | July 29, 2026

Looking Around Helps Me Stay Safe — About this Life Guide

This Life Guide has 29 pages. The first few pages are included in the product images for preview. Throughout the Life Guide, 21 Thinking Questions are thoughtfully placed to help the child pause, reflect, and share their ideas, making the learning meaningful and personal.

If this Life Guide is printed and laminated or placed in a sheet protector, the adult or the child may place a checkmark or sticker in the circle after answering each question. This small action helps reinforce the child’s effort, encourages engagement, and supports positive learning routines.

Digital and Print-Friendly Format

This Life Guide PDF file is optimized for both digital reading and printing at home or school.

Overview

Looking Around Helps Me Stay Safe is a professionally developed, child‑centred social–emotional learning (SEL) guide within the My Life Guides series, thoughtfully designed to support children—including those with significant behavioural challenges—in understanding how to move mindfully, notice people and objects around them, and make safe, respectful choices in shared school spaces.

This Life Guide helps children learn what it means to walk calmly, give friends enough space, respond safely when someone bumps into them, notice when adults are talking to them, and listen respectfully the first time. It also supports children in recognizing their strengths, understanding expectations, and seeing themselves as capable, responsible, and valued members of their learning community.

Clinical and Educational Foundation

This Life Guide is grounded in evidence‑informed practices commonly used in:

✤ behavioural intervention

✤ early childhood education

✤ special education

✤ trauma‑informed teaching

✤ emotional regulation coaching

✤ neurodiversity‑affirming approaches

It has been successfully used in real classrooms with students who experience:

✤ severe behavioural dysregulation

✤ difficulty following routines

✤ challenges with transitions

✤ emotional overwhelm

✤ unsafe choices while walking or moving in shared spaces

✤ sensory overload

✤ impulsivity or frustration

✤ newly learning and practicing social expectations, classroom rules, and everyday social situations

It has also been supportive for neurodiverse learners, including children with a wide range of developmental and neurological differences.

Who this Life Guide is for

This Life Guide is highly effective for:

✤ Parents

✤ Caregivers

✤ Educators

✤ Education Assistants / Inclusive Education Support Worker

✤ School Counsellors

✤ School-Based Resource Teams

✤ Behaviour Interventionists

✤ BCBAs

✤ Early Childhood Professionals

It is especially supportive for children who benefit from:

✤ explicit instruction

✤ visual and narrative modelling

✤ predictable routines

✤ calm-down strategies

✤ positive behaviour reinforcement

✤ neurodiversity‑affirming language

✤ gentle emotional coaching

About the Author

Written by Ms. Moon, Founder of Over the Moon Wellness and Behaviour Support Worker at the North Vancouver School District.

Working closely with school teams and other professionals across the school community, Ms. Moon observes children with moderate‑to‑severe behavioural challenges across diverse school settings. She looks beyond surface behaviours to understand each child’s inner thoughts, unmet needs, and unique struggles. With empathy and evidence‑based strategies, she develops tailored approaches that empower children to adapt positively to school and community life.

Ms. Moon creates My Life Guides with a heartfelt mission: to equip children with the essential skills they need to navigate daily growth pains and obstacles, helping them feel safe, capable, and supported in their everyday lives. Her hope is to inspire every child to move forward with confidence, pursue kind and meaningful goals, and build a beautiful, fulfilling future of their own design.

Commitment to Children's Well-Being

A portion of every purchase from the My Life Guides series is donated to initiatives that support research in children’s mental health, developmental disabilities, and neurological disabilities, as well as programs that promote the health and growth of children and families in our communities.