one of the things we do in fasttrack is to use the metaphor of a stoplight as a way to help childrenprocesses, so we paint red circles and yellow circles and green circles on playgrounds and desks, and what we do is we teach children, five-year-old children, rambunctious kindergartners, that when they experience a problem such as rolling them or being threatened, they should go down slowht, calm , down, stop, count to 10, take a deep breath, whatever it is to slow them down, and with these high-risk kindergartners, if that is all we can teach them in the entire kindergarten year, that is a success, but the next step is after they are calm to teach them to go to the yellow light, and the yellow light is a thinking light, where you think of new perspectives and solutions. was that person really trying to be mean to me? if i respond, what will happen? we try to get them into a thinking, and, problem-solving mode, then when they come up with their best response, they come up to the green light to try it out, to go ahead, and if it works, great. if it doesn't, they go back to the red ligh