Snarky Kids | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: January 11th, 2026
When you get a snarky comment from a kid, they are looking to see if you take the bait!
Generational Differences are Huge! | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: December 21st, 2025
How are we going to handle these huge generational differences we have in school?
Ask Polly Bath: Are You Letting Kids Misbehave By Not Responding?
Date: October 22nd, 2025
Polly answers the question: “You’ve said that sometimes it’s better NOT to respond to a behavior but isn’t that just letting kids misbehave?”
Control? Power Struggle?
Date: July 18th, 2025
Kids often try to keep a piece of their control when you give them a direction. Be careful this doesn’t lead to a power struggle!
Kid Refusing to Work in Your Class?
Date: June 25th, 2025
Power Struggles and Control
Date: December 31st, 2024
Be careful not to get caught up in a power struggle when a student tries to keep a little piece of the control.
Make it Easier to Apologize
Date: December 11th, 2024
Teach kids how they can apologize without feeling like they’re losing ground in a power struggle.
Ask Polly Bath: Behaviors and Saying “Thank You”
Date: November 10th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I’m working with a girl who has behavior problems. When she stops a behavior my instinct is to thank her, but that seems to make her mad. Is there something I’m missing?”
Ask Polly Bath: Only Teacher Enforcing Dress Code?
Date: February 25th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I had a kid say to me today: ‘Other kids are wearing the same thing I am but you’re the only teacher who’s got a problem with it!’ No one is enforcing the dress code but me! Help!”
Surviving Substitute Teaching!
Date: January 31st, 2024
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