My No-Nonsense Response to Lying | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: March 1st, 2026
A Kid Refuses to Remove Their Hood?
Date: January 21st, 2026
How do you handle a student who refuses to take their hood off? This is what I would do.
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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?”
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.
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?”
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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