By James Lowell Healthy Lion Cub reporters | Everyone feels stress. It can be feelings of frustration, sadness, and anger, says KidsHealth.org, a health website. It’s OK to feel some stress, but too much stress can be bad for our hearts.
Mrs. Karwoski’s first-grade Cub reporters learned some strategies to reduce stress. One way is to take slow, deep breaths for one minute, according to an article in Greater Good Magazine.
Listening to music can also lower stress, says an article on the Psychology Today website.
Two other ways to reduce stress that the reporters discussed were arts and crafts and movement. Cub reporters tried doing yoga at their seats. They practiced breathing and stretching.
The students voted on which strategy they would try first. Here are the results of 19 students: breathing (3), movement (2), music (6) and arts and crafts (8).
One Cub reporter said she enjoys painting to reduce stress because “it is fun and it calms me down.”
Another reporter said he liked listening to rap music because “it makes me feel good and it helps me move when I am listening to the music.”
Illustration by Korey, 8th grade, DePaul, 2024-2025.
