Bucket theory, for the rest of you, is the idea that everyone has one bucket. Stressors add to the bucket. Some things like sleep and relaxing drain the bucket. But when the bucket is full, more stressors can’t fit and it overflows and gets everywhere.
I like to call it “the cope bucket”
— @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space
Interesting. My kid’s elementary school uses the opposite bucket metaphor, though it’s more focused on how you impact other people’s buckets than how you can handle your own: Rather than a bucket of stress it’s a bucket of positive feelings, and you can either contribute to your classmates’ buckets with kindness as a “bucket filler” or empty them out with hitting, rudeness etc. as a “bucket dipper.”