How to Deal With a Kid Running Out of Your Classroom | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: November 30th, 2025
You’ve got to have a plan for when littles run out of the classroom. Here’s how.
The Only Solution to Running in the Halls | Let’s Talk About Behavior | POLLY BATH
Date: October 12th, 2025
Ask Polly Bath: Hitting and Spitting!
Date: August 10th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “What would you do with a child in a classroom who hits and spits?”
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: Hitting? Spitting? HELP!!!
Date: January 13th, 2024
Polly answers the question: “I have a kid who hits and spits at others. We have two paraprofessionals in the room and we all try our best to watch her but as soon as we hear a scream we know… she has done something to someone. Even though she gets sent to the office all the time she isn’t getting any better. Do you have any ways of dealing with this?”
Safety Issues at Recess?
Date: September 13th, 2023
When a kid won’t come in after recess, or they run off the playground, this is a safety issue.
Prevent Behaviors from Becoming Safety Issues
Date: March 22nd, 2023
What do we need to do in order to prevent behaviors from becoming safety issues?
WHAT Is the Behavior?
Date: March 15th, 2023
Look at a child’s behavior. Is it a disruption? Disrespect? Refusal? Safety? The problem a behavior creates is a lot more important than the behavior itself.
Don’t Overuse “Be Safe!”
Date: March 8th, 2023
We don’t want to overuse the terms “Be safe!” and “Be careful!” because they actually plant imminent fear and danger in a kid’s mind.
Are Little Kids Being Disrespectful?
Date: December 28th, 2022
When little kids misbehave, we automatically think they are being disrespectful. But are they?
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