How to Change Entrenched Behaviors | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: July 26th, 2026
Why Would a Kid WANT a Lunch Detention?
Date: June 17th, 2026
Is a student purposely misbehaving in order to get a lunch detention with you? Here’s how I handle this attention-seeking behavior.
My No-Nonsense Response to Lying | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: March 1st, 2026
Ask Polly Bath: Kid Making Demands?
Date: September 10th, 2025
Polly answers the question: “When a student makes demands, expects me to follow them, and when I don’t they explode in a rage; what might be a way to handle this?”
Ask Polly Bath: Student Hates You?
Date: December 22nd, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I am a paraprofessional dealing with a fifth-grade boy who curses me out, hits me, throws things at me, and generally terrorizes me. He says he hates me and wants to force me to quit my job. I do not have support from the teacher. What can I do?”
What’s Driving This Behavior?
Date: May 6th, 2024
We tend to get so focused on a child’s behavior and how we’re going to change it. Instead, let’s shift the focus to what is driving that behavior.
How Do You Define Lying?
Date: November 21st, 2023
We often define lying as disrespect. But doing this gets our emotions involved and we take the behavior personally.
Attention Seeking Behavior?
Date: August 2nd, 2023
When the function of a child’s behavior is to get attention, I give it to them without having to earn it.
Don’t Get Derailed by Swearing!
Date: May 24th, 2023
When a kid swears at you, don’t let it derail your whole class. Is that hard? Absolutely!
Causal Factor of a Behavior?
Date: May 10th, 2023
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