CONSCIOUS KID’S CORNER with Grandma Boom
Empowering Children
To Be Superkids
by Janai ‘Grandma Boom’ Mestrovich
Only seven years old, he was able to
save his own life. Troy’s eyes were always peaked, his color pale. For three
years I had been teaching stress management skills and how the mind, body
and emotions work together to 113
children at a rural school in Oregon.
E
ach week I asked for their success stories demonstrating how
they used the prior week’s skills.
Troy never spoke up. But that
changed with an unforgettable,
shocking success story one winter morning in the third year. I
was quite surprised to see Troy raise his hand
and enthusiastically welcomed his story.
“Janai, my parents were fighting on a bridge
Saturday night and forgot I was there. They
accidentally knocked me off the bridge. I
caught a limb that was hanging over the
water.” I cringed when I heard this. It
was common knowledge his parents
were druggies.
Troy continued. “I was scared.
Then I remembered what you
taught us last week with that
song. ‘BREATHE, THINK and
MAKE A GOOD CHOICE!’
I took a deep breath,
thought about what to
do and figured out how
to get to shore.” (TV pilot, free for viewing, that
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