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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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: 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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Date: November 8th, 2023

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