Library · Asking for a Break
before it gets too loud.
A craft table, twenty voices, scissors and glue, and a room that keeps getting louder. Vivi turns that moment into a narrated, animated story your child stars in: noticing it is too much, asking for a break, and coming back when ready.
Who it helps
For children who cover their ears, go stiff or shut down in a noisy room, and only get noticed once they are already past their limit. Many autistic children and children with sensory differences need the break before the overwhelm, and a social story shows them how to ask for it.
Teachers use it too, so the break card means the same thing at school as it does in the story.
Too loud
The room is noisy, the glue is sticky, and your child's shoulders go up. They notice it is getting too much.
Asking
A break card on the table, or a short request to the teacher. The teacher says yes.
The quiet place
The corner with the cushions, or the hallway. Breathing, waiting, and no one is upset.
Coming back
One manageable part of the craft, with help if they need it. Then it is done.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
At home on a calm evening, then on mornings before busy days: crafts, parties, assemblies. Watch it with the real break card next to you.
Yes. Tell Vivi what the break card looks like, where the quiet space is and what the teacher is called, and read every page before it is animated. Ask for changes in plain words.
Agree on a signal, a card or a short phrase, show the adult saying yes to it, and make the quiet place real and known. A social story where your child is the main character lets them see the whole thing work before they need it.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from Asking for a Break, and watch it together before bed.
Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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