What is crisis?

Crisis is when something goes wrong so much that it feels like everything might fall apart, but it's not magic, just really bad timing.

Imagine you're building a tower with blocks, and each block is a day in your life. You stack them carefully, one after another, and suddenly, crash!, the whole tower falls down because someone bumped into it. That’s like a crisis, everything was going fine, but something unexpected happened that made things go wrong all at once.

What makes a crisis?

A crisis happens when lots of little problems come together at the same time. It's like when you're trying to eat your lunch, but your favorite toy breaks, your friend forgets to bring snacks, and your teacher asks you to clean up the classroom, all in one day!

How do we fix it?

When a crisis happens, people work together to fix what went wrong. It's like when you and your friends rebuild the block tower after it falls, one person brings more blocks, another helps stack them, and soon everything is back to normal.

Crisis isn’t the end of the world, it’s just a big problem that needs solving!

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Examples

  1. A town loses its main water source during a drought
  2. A student fails all their exams at once
  3. A family is suddenly homeless after a fire

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