Shooting from the Hip!

Often times when we are dealing with difficult, misbehaving kids (adults too?) we end up shooting from the hip when we react to them.  Kids can be so frustrating when they are rude and disrespectful.  That frustration turns us into impulsive adults who shoot from the hip back at kids who have us at our wits end.  If you haven't noticed, this does not work.
The key to dealing with undisciplined kids is to be the disciplined adult around them.

Self disciplined children come from being in relationship with self-disciplined adults.

This is hard work.  It means we cannot afford the luxury of being reactive and impulsive ourselves.
It means we must find the strategies and techniques that help us to maintain our own self-discipline when dealing with undisciplined children.

This blog is devoted to helping teachers and parents learn how to maintain their own self-discipline when dealing with misbehaving children.  If you thought that the "trick" in managing children's behavior was to figure what to do with THEM, you had it backwards.  Actually the "trick," if there is any, is in figuring out what to do with YOURSELF - with your attitudes and thinking, with your language and words and with your actions and behavior.  When you figure out how to manage your own behavior around misbehaving kids you have tapped in to the key to helping children transform their behavior.  More to come......stay tuned!
Lou