■ Feeling fear and panic
■ Being stuck in a difficult place
■ Feeling helpless and hopelessResources Developed
■ Being adventurous
■ Exploring new experiences
■ Having fun
■ Thinking ahead
■ Being determined
■ Exploring all the possibilitiesOutcomes Offered
■ Lateral thinking
■ Patience
■ Persistence
■ Success
Sometimes it is easy to find yourself in trouble when you don’t expect to be. Sometimes, when
we face a new situation, we don’t know what to do, simply because we have never had to face it be-
fore. That’s what happened to Ms. Teresa Frog. When she was small, everyone used to call her Little
Te ssie Tadpole. Now that she was bigger she preferred Ms. Teresa Frog.
Ms. Teresa Frog lived in a pond on a farm. She was a rather adventurous young frog who liked
to go exploring. Some described her as nosy, or a “sticky beak.” Her mother often told her she stuck
her nose in where she shouldn’t. “Mark my words,” her mother would say. “One day you will be in
big trouble.” But Teresa hadto explore. She just had to discover things she didn’t know.
After all, it was fun to leave her pond and go hopping around the farmyard. It was always fun to
watch the comical chickens busily scratching and pecking their way around the coop. She wouldn’t
like to be confined like them, she thought to herself.
She had discovered that visiting the pigpen nearly always gave her the chance to catch a plump
fly or two. There were so many around that the quick flick of her long tongue almost always guar-
anteed a meal.
One particular day, Ms. Teresa Frog (formerly known as Little Tessie Tadpole) was hopping past
the dairy when she smelled the fresh fragrance of cream. Following her nose, she found the tempt-
ing smell coming from a bucket on the floor. Wanting to taste the cream, she jumped toward the rim
of the bucket but didn’t leap quite high enough. She tried again, putting in all her effort. This time
she overdid it, leaping right over the rim and landing in the lush cream with a soft plop.
The cream was thick and warm. It felt so much nicer than swimming in her cold pond. Even
better, it tasted good to drink. She flicked out her long tongue, lapping up several rich mouthfuls.
But, after playing for a while and drinking her fill, Ms. Teresa Frog thought it was time to head back
to her home in the pond. This was when her trouble began.
You see, Ms. Teresa Frog hadn’t thought very far ahead. She’d thought about getting intothe
bucket but she hadn’t given any thought to getting outof the bucket. The sides were steep, her cream-
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