Students learn what self-control is and how to develop it in this engaging and entertaining play for K-2.

1. To help students learn how their actions impact themselves, each other, and the environment.
2. To learn new vocabulary, including self-control, frustrated, wait, and stop and think.
3. To show scenes of losing and keeping self-control.
4. To introduce the notion of self-talk and demonstrate its use in keeping self-control.
5. To teach practices that help keep self-control.
6. To help students understand that self-control is a skill that takes practice.
7. To help children see that children who do not have self-control are not necessarily mean.

When Jared’s mom tells him he needs to find “a little self-control,” Jared misunderstands and begins to search for a “little yellow troll.” He finds the curmudgeonly creature in his own backyard carrying a bag labeled “Jared’s Self-Control.” But the troll won’t give up his bag until Jared passes seven tests. As Jared passes each test, he learns what self-control is, and what he needs to know and do in order to practice it.