Real conversations with your students.
"How do I make a paper airplane?"
"You too, have a great rest of the day😁"
"Idk, family life has gotten a little better for him, but his sisters make him feel worthless, and when his parents get after him, they yell at him so much, he feels like cutting. I always manage to make his feel better, but, I really just don't like his mom the most. She manipulates him to fo what she wants, and it just breaks him"
"You're welcome! 😉 But thanks to you too 😁"
"That’s good, I’ll try to do that today with my friends."
"thank you, you too!!"
"I have a math test tomorrow and that's the only class holding me back from my 4.0 and if I don't do good I'll lose it"
"My friends say I talk too much, any tips on how to talk less?"
"I appreciate it 😊most definitely👍"
"How do I deal with stress?"
"Well for one I'm just sad a lot of the time, I guess we could call that depression at this point, and I often act happy and good natured, and I'm trying to transition away from the religion of the masses here in St George, but I don't expect any of them to be able to understand, so I keep it to myself. Whenever I talk to them I feel like I'm constantly filtering what I really want to say because they wouldn't be ok with it"
"I don't feel an intimate connection to anyone in my life and being in the general vicinity of people gives me extreme anxiety."
"What can I do to improve my mood?"
"There's a lot on my to do list and I feel it piling up"
"Guess what? I aced my test, 100/100!"
"That's a very structured way of looking at it, I think that would be a great start"
"I'll try to gain the courage to talk to someone irl, if not I'll come back to talk to you- it's easy to release over text honestly 😅"
"All my friends watch tiktoks instead of doing hw and brag about it, it's like, high school culture to just procrastinate and brag about having bad grades and no sleep and everything and it doesn't click to me. But yeah I love my friends but I wish I could meet some that are more like me."
"Will do😀👍"
"Thank you so much for listening, sometimes I just feel like nobody is listening or understands."
"I like that, I think that’s a good point, thank you for your input"
"I am very sad and don't feel like attending class."
"Well thank you amazing human too! It's so awesome that you take time to talk to strangers and brighten their day through this program. Keep it up! Have a great day"
"I feel constantly disappointed about myself because I know I can do better, but I don't seem to be able to."
"I lost my whole friend group of 4 years. I think that they were just so toxic. i wasn't invited to anything unless i texted them. i would leave with extreme anxiety and no one would ask me if i was ok. and they've all just changed since i met them. we don't have the same values or morals anymore"
"hey, so i have this friend who i don't want to be friends with anymore but i don't know what to do?"
"Do you think I have depression?"
"How do I deal with very opinionated friends?"
"I was home from school for two weeks because I was depressed because my parents divorced this summer and I moved and haven't been feeling belonged at school"
"How do I get rid of a friend that is mean and is taking all of my friends"