Ask Polly Bath: Helping Angry Youngsters?

Date: July 12th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “How can I help my young students work through anger, frustration, shutting down, and refusal when they already don’t have much control over their emotions?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Autism and Refusal

Date: June 22nd, 2025

Polly answers the question: “Do you have any strategies for helping students with autism who refuse to do non-preferred activities?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Consequence for Refusing?

Date: May 24th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “What’s a logical consequence for a student who is capable of completing work but refuses?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Won’t Participate?

Date: May 4th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “What can I do about a third grader who refuses to participate in whole class lessons?”

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Ask Polly Bath: Lying in Kindergarten?

Date: April 26th, 2025

Polly answers the question: “Any advice on how to handle young children (kindergarten age) who habitually lie?”

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My Vision for Behavior

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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Ask Polly Bath: Extra Support Not Helping?

Date: June 2nd, 2024

Polly answers the question: “We give our kids with higher ACES scores extra support but they often still resort to escalating behaviors and/or refusal. Why are they still struggling with learning?”

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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.

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Tell Kids to Take Back Control

Date: November 15th, 2023

Kids want control. What they don’t realize is that when they don’t follow instructions, they are actually giving up their control.

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Late to Class…Again!

Date: November 8th, 2023

What do you do when a kid is chronically late to class?

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