-
Aiming for Discipline Instead of Punishment | Edutopia
Discipline can only be done when both the educator and the student are calm and self-regulated. If they aren’t, behavioral difficulties will escalate. https://www.edutopia.org/article/aiming-discipline-instead-punishment
-
[Link] Interrogative Suggestibility in People with FASD
https://online.csp.edu/blog/forensic-scholars-today/interrogative-suggestibility-in-people-with-fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder Failing to account for the unique needs of individuals with FASD in the criminal justice system may result in injustice not only to the individual but also to the criminal justice system and society as a whole.
-
WALSH: The Four Terrible Things That Are Destroying Boys In Our Culture | Daily Wire
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29311/walsh-boys-matt-walsh?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand
-
[Link] Reading is fundamental — to the family’s happiness (CNN)
From David Allen over at CNN The value of reading to our kids — for them and us — is reinforced by the growing body of research on the topic. Just last week, a meta-analysis of 19 studies published in the journal Pediatrics found that reading aloud was significantly beneficial to children and their parents. […]
-
New Study Finds Fetal Alcohol Disorders Affect Children As Commonly As Autism
https://jezebel.com/new-study-finds-fetal-alcohol-disorders-affect-children-1822775865
-
[link] Blame the Parent – ADOPTING FAITH: A Father’s Unconditional Love
When a child is struggling, one technique is quick. It’s easy. It cost no money. Yet it skirts any sense of personal responsibility – while undermining any spirit of cooperation. In other words, just blame the Parent. “ Read more at the link below : https://adoptingfaithafathersunconditionallove.org/2017/12/18/blame-the-parent/
-
[link] Why It’s a Mistake to Prioritize Behavior Goals Over Social-Emotional Development
On executive functioning : Too often, adults react to problematic behaviors—whether in the form of language, physical actions, or emotional outbursts—by issuing consequences for this “choice.” But that approach assumes the child can choose to behave otherwise, that she has the capacity for “executive function.” Read more…
-
[Edutopia] Quick Exercises to Combat Stress
The context of this article is the school classroom, but we may be trying these at home. There’s some great ideas here that make sense every what we’ve learned about brain development and trauma. Adversity and trauma reside in our biology, not our psychology and cognition, so we educators need to prime students’ brains for […]