Date: April 4th, 2026

Here’s what I do when a child is openly rude to me.
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Date: March 1st, 2026

When I know a kid is lying, here’s what I do.
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Date: March 19th, 2025

When you don’t clearly define what respect means in your school, then you end up missing the mark trying to teach it!
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Date: January 5th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “How do you respond to a younger kid swearing versus an older kid swearing?”
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Date: August 31st, 2024

Polly answers the question: “I am the school counselor at a middle school and I am feeling so defeated by the rudeness, disrespect, and hatred I have been seeing from students lately. I have tried so many things, suggestions?”
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Date: June 5th, 2024

Through management, intervention, and logical consequences, I learn how to manage my skill deficits and challenges, accept who I am, and know proactively how to respond to the world, the good, the bad, and the ugly, without creating disruptions, disrespects, refusals, and safeties.
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Date: February 18th, 2024

Polly answers the question: “What do I say to a student who comes to me feeling like they have been disrespected by another teacher… And they may be correct?”
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Date: January 28th, 2024

Polly answers the question: “What is an example of logical consequences?”
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Date: November 21st, 2023

We often define lying as disrespect. But doing this gets our emotions involved and we take the behavior personally.
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Date: August 5th, 2023

Polly answers the question: “This year cuss words and slurs seem normal to our students! Even my 3rd graders! I’m struggling not to let the level of disrespect hijack my feelings. How do I send the message that their language matters – to me and to each other?”
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