Kids Need Play to Develop Executive Functioning Skills

Date: November 20th, 2019

Don’t take so much play out of school that kids can’t develop executive functioning skills!

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If a Kid Misbehaves to Get Attention Because That’s All They Know…

Date: November 16th, 2019

When a kid misbehaves in order to get attention, do you withhold attention?

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Behavior: Kid Escalating?

Date: November 6th, 2019

We can’t get through to a kid who is in the middle of an escalation. We need to wait!

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You Can’t Control Their Home Lives and It Doesn’t Matter!

Date: October 16th, 2019

We can’t change what a kid is allowed to do at home. BUT we CAN teach them the skills needed to behave in school!

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Not Being Able to Handle Rejection Can Cause a Behavior Problem

Date: August 21st, 2019

We need to teach kids how to handle rejection because that is a real life skill!!!

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We MUST Teach Anger Self-Management

Date: August 6th, 2019

Do you TEACH kids how not to become angry? Or do you just give the kid an out when they’re angry?

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If You’re Asking Them to Work in Groups, YOU BETTER TEACH ‘EM HOW!!!

Date: August 4th, 2019

Even if you have a great lesson plan, you still might get really awful behaviors unless you teach them the social skills they’ll need for it.

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Poor Conversation Skills Can LOOK Like Behavior Problems

Date: July 31st, 2019

There are a lot of skills needed for a conversation. Are you teaching them?

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I Don’t Like to Use Screen Time as a Reward

Date: July 24th, 2019

Are we feeding into our young students’ lack of social skills by using screen time as a reward?

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DO NOT Give Everyone a Trophy!!!

Date: June 8th, 2019

Learning how to compete is a social skill! Kids will suffer as adults if we don’t teach it to them!

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