Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame App Reviews

Great little program to help little ones (mine is 4), to handle feelings.

Fabulous game to teach executive function skills. Shows a child how you can stop and generate good choices. Love it! I use it at home with my 6 year old and at work with my preschoolers/kindergarteners with autism.

My nieces love this app!!!

I just finished doing all of the activities in the new "Breathe, Think, Do" app from Sesame Street. Fabulous app! I love that the app includes examples of self-directed solutions as well as seeking help from an adult. And that 3 ideas for solutions are shown for each situation (helping kids see that there can be multiple alternatives). Its really cool how the app depicts the monster calming down as he breathes and thinks. The "Parent" section of the app has fabulous tips too. Most of the kids on my caseload have Autism or closely related diagnoses and high levels of anxiety. This app will be great to use with them. Thanks! ~ Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP Speech-Language Pathologist / OMazing Kids

I have an original iPad iOS 5 for my 2 year old. Sadly as promising as this app seems we are not able to use it due to it constantly crashing.

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame is an incredible interactive app on learning to self regulate by using the medium of the breath, then brainstorming a plan of action. I love how this teaches children that calming is within themselves and not through an external mean. There are 5 different situations familiar to kids in their everyday lives - dealing with frustration, fear, impatience, etc. Helping the monster come up with a plan of action, models making decisions or plans of actions. As a child becomes more involved in the decision making, they grow more confident and capable and willing to try alternatives to habitual patterns. There are 3 alternatives to explore in helping the little monster overcome his obstacle. Exploring each, demonstrates that there are no right or wrong answers to solving many problems...and that we may have to try a couple of things to help us calm down. Once a decision is made, you get to see the outcome play out, insuring further exploration of other choices. You are also reinforced by the narrator tellin you how helpful you've been. The hardest lesson for me as an adult has always been, that I do not have to follow habitual patterns, and that I can change on the spot. This is a valuable app for parents and clinicians, and one that should be reinforced as situations come up. Highly Highly Recommended.

it keeps going back to the home screen when I want to go in

This app is amazing! I use it with preschoolers with special needs at various levels of functioning and they all learn how to breathe with the monster. I would highly recommend it and wished there were more scenarios to the app (because I would be willing to pay for them!).

Closed each time I opened it on iPad mini...

I was very excited for my son to try this app but it crashes at the beginning. Very disappointing!

Closes up every time I try to open it

This app crashes before its even open!!!! It is totally useless. Plz help. Fix immediately!

My son loves this app, when it works! It keeps crashing in the middle of an activity and he bursts out crying every time. Please fix this!

I use this app with preschoolers who need to learn to self regulate. The other day in my free clinic, I let a nonverbal five year old with autism take my iPad to explore some games while I spoke with his mother.I watched out of the corner of my eye while he drifted from game to game unengaged. Suddenly he found this app, and I assumed he would be bored instantly. Instead he was engaged for over 20 minutes, trying his best to mimic the breathing exercises demonstrated, and easily interacting with the activities. A little smile emerged as he listened to the lessons—even his mother couldn’t believe how attentive and involved he was. Please make more apps on self-regulating of behavior—this generation seems to need it more than ever, especially those children who don’t have disabilities :)

My son likes to help the monster breathe, but the app always crashes after the first activity.

I tried to use this app to calm an agitated student on the autism spectrum. He was responsive--but then the app crashed. This was not calming! Seems like this could be a great app once the bugs are fixed. I would love to be able to use it. Please help!

I love the game!

This is an amazing app. I use it as a school counselor to reinforce breathing and self-regulation skills. But,.. It has stopped working. I have tried uninstalling and still not working. Please Fix this SS! My students miss it.

Was excited about this app but it wont even start on my ipad.

What happened to the sound? Will rate higher when fixed. We love this game but we uploaded the new patch the sound almost completely disappeared. My son is not happy