Superhero Training: Power Up Your Social-Emotional Learning!
Our seven Superhero Training Learning Guides are the perfect companions to the My Friend Breath Picture Book. Each guide is designed to be used alongside any format of the book, making it easy and fun to explore important social-emotional skills together.
With engaging lessons, done-for-you scripts, and interactive activities, these guides make it easy for you to teach emotional skills in a way that feels playful and meaningful for your child.
Each guide turns a simple read-along into a shared moment of co-regulation, helping your child develop their social-emotional skills as you develop a shared strategy for managing emotions together.
Social-Emotional Learning Creates Confidence!
Teaching social-emotional skills is one of the most impactful ways to support a child’s well-being—whether you're guiding a classroom, nurturing a child in a therapy session, or learning at home. But with busy schedules and competing demands, finding time to integrate impactful moments of social-emotional practice can be a challenge.
That’s why we created the Superhero Training Learning Guides—ready-to-use lessons designed to enhance the teaching of emotional-regulation skills during a read-along of My Friend Breath. They are an engaging and effective way to embed social-emotional learning into story time, group time, or a home routine.
Each guide focuses on a specific area of development—starting with Mindful Breathing, Breath Awareness, and Superhero Breathing, then expanding into deeper skills like Developing Resilience, Emotional Empowerment, Showing Empathy, and Self-Regulation.
With easy-to-follow scripts that tell you what to say, ask and do to teach the focus skill, as well as discussion prompts, and interactive online games, these guides make it easy for educators, parents, and therapists to deliver impactful learning. Everything’s ready—just open and begin.
Framing each lesson as “Superhero Training” captures children’s attention and boosts participation—making it easier to teach and reinforce important emotional skills in a way that’s playful, memorable, and meaningful.
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Explore the Seven Social-Emotional Skills
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1. Mindful Breathing
Do you want to help your child establish a mindful breathing practice, but you’re not sure where to begin?
This first learning guide makes teaching mindful breathing easy for adults and fun for kids!
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2. Breath Awareness
Did you know that every emotion has a corresponding breathing pattern?
This learning guide shows you how to introduce the concept of breath awareness to a child and explain the connection between our breath and our emotions.
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3. Superhero Breathing
Want to help children understand why to connect to their breath and how they can use it to self-calm?
This learning guide explains in simple, kid-friendly language, why your breath is magical and introduces four superhero breathing patterns children can use to self-calm.
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4. Developing Resilience
Imagine witnessing your child confidently regulate their emotions through the ups and downs of life.
Combining breath awareness with mindful breathing is the empowering resilience strategy that is the focus of this learning guide.
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5. Emotional Empowerment
Want to empower your child with a simple emotional-regulation strategy?
This learning guide helps children discover how becoming a superhero, through using this three word strategy, is the essence of emotional empowerment.
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6. Showing Empathy
Looking for a way to teach your child how to show kindness and empathy towards others?
Teaching children how to respond to someone else’s emotional state in an empathic manner is the focus of this learning guide.
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7. Self-Regulation
Will my child know how to connect to their breath when they need to?
This learning guide helps to transition a child's knowledge of how to use their breath into a skill they can use to self-regulate their emotions, anytime, anywhere.
What’s inside our learning guides for adults?
A fact sheet is included at the start of each guide to introduce the social-emotional skill.
These provide foundational knowledge to help adults understand what the focus skill is, why it matters, and how the skill is demonstrated throughout the My Friend Breath picture book.
This information empowers you to confidently share each concept with your child during the conversations you have together, before, during and after a read-along of the story.
The read-along scripts help you take the foundational information about each skill and teach it to your child.
Each script gives you clear and concise instructions on:
What to say, using kid-friendly language,
What to ask, with suggested answers given, and
What to do to teach each social-emotional skill.
This helps to turn a reading of My Friend Breath into a powerful learning experience for your child.
Checking that your child understands what you are teaching is an important part of supporting them to develop their social-emotional skills.
In each learning guide the ‘Check for Understanding’ section has three resources that assess your child's comprehension of the specific focus skill. These are a fun way for your child to showcase and celebrate their learning. The activities include:
A set of comprehension questions and answers.
Six online question/answer flipcards.
An interactive audio activity.
What’s inside our learning guides for kids?
64 online interactive games and puzzles are included in the Superhero Training.
The purpose of these online activities is to actively engage your child in learning each specific social-emotional skill through the process of play.
Catering for different ability levels and featuring illustrations from the My Friend Breath Picture Book, these games are an enjoyable and meaningful way to focus your child's attention while enhancing their learning. They are also a fun and easy way to disguise learning for reluctant participants!
For entertaining and educational offline learning the Superhero Training lessons also includes 28 printable activities.
With games, puzzles, mazes, crosswords, drawings, colouring in, and more. All which provide hours of engaging activities that will help to balance out your child's screen time.
The activities cater for different ability levels and also help to embed the social-emotional learning focus of each superhero learning guide. They are great to use with a child one-on-one or in a group setting.
To formally complete the Superhero Training your child is presented with the Superhero Quiz.
The quiz questions give your child the opportunity to showcase the knowledge and skills they have developed throughout the lessons.
Celebrate this accomplishment, and their transformation into a superhero, by awarding them with the official ‘My Friend Breath Superhero Certificate’. The certificate is both editable & printable and officially welcomes your child to the My Friend Breath Superhero Club!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Parents, carers, teachers, child-care educators, special education teachers, home schoolers, any influential adults in a child’s life.
This Superhero Training is an easy to use resources to help you teach social-emotional skills to a child during a read-along of the picture book My Friend Breath.
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Our Superhero Training is a companion to the My Friend Breath picture book. Therefore you will need a copy of this book, either in a digital or physical format, to teach these lessons.
If you purchase the Superhero Bundle, which includes all of the learning guides, you receive a FREE digital flipbook version of My Friend Breath picture book
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The superhero training guides are set up to be taught in a sequential order that progressively develops the concepts for your child.
Each social-emotional skill builds upon the last, allowing children’s learning to be consolidated as you move through the training.
We suggest following this order, but if a particular focus is needed you can certainly teach them in the way that works best for you.
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The Superhero Training Program is delivered electronically via email upon purchase.
Each learning guide is provided as a printable PDF
The activities and games are hosted on our website with clickable links and QR codes inside of each learning guide.
The Superhero Certificate is provided as an editable and printable PDF.
When purchased as part of a Superhero Club Membership each superhero training is easily accessible via the membership homepage in the same formats as detailed above.
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For multiple people to access our resources purchase a Superhero Club Membership.
Our membership options provide equal and unlimited access to all our digital resources, which includes the superhero training.
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We suggest allocating 10 - 20 minutes to complete the My Friend Breath read-along script portion of each Superhero Training guide with your child.
Prepare yourself by pre-reading the foundational information about the social-emotional skill focus at the beginning of each learning guide.
There is no suggested time frame for the games and activities for children, other than allowing them to enjoy the experience of consolidating their learning through play!
We love our amazing community of superheroes!
It is a joy to share the magic of the breath with children, families, and communities around the world.
We are grateful to do so through our My Friend Breath resources, as well as in-person, and virtual author visits.
Join us as we celebrate our amazing superhero community!