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Category: behaviour management

Conditions of worth (and unconditional positive regard)

This post looks at Carl Rogers’ personality theory and how part of it relates significantly to our parenting/caring of children. Part…

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Published January 21, 2022
Categorized as behaviour management, self esteem, Wellbeing

Dealing with point-blank refusal from your child

In a pupil referral unit, point blank refusal from a child is such a regular event that staff are not…

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Published March 26, 2021
Categorized as behaviour management

Tackling Difficult Behaviours

As exhausted parents/carers/teachers, we tend to manage difficult behaviours in a reactive way e.g. a reprimand, the removal of an…

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Published January 30, 2020
Categorized as behaviour management, behaviour plan, restorative

Delayed gratification

I am sure many of you have heard the Stanford marshmallow experiment where young children were told they could have one…

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Published October 23, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management, emotional literacy

Article in ‘The Lady’

This week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Lily Law from, ‘The Lady’ about what I do. Here is the…

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Published July 7, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management, emotional literacy, What I have been up to

The normative effect

(This is a post about older children and teenagers.) I learnt about the normative effect several years ago at a…

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Published May 6, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

The ‘after chat’

Being a parent or carer is not an easy job. It’s 24/7 and there isn’t a manual to guide you.…

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Published March 22, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

Punitive versus restorative

When a child does something wrong, most of us have been taught that the child needs to be punished. Punishments…

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Published March 9, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

I am wondering…

Obviously nobody can guess what another person is feeling with 100% accuracy all of the time. “I am wondering…” is…

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Published February 28, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management, emotional literacy

Sticking to your guns!

What I cover in this post will seem obvious but I think it’s always good to reflect a little because…

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Published February 16, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

Thank you, not please

You might already know this little trick but if not, it’s too good not to add to your toolkit of…

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Published February 10, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management, Uncategorized

Correcting misdemeanors!

One effective behaviour management technique that I use with the children I teach part-time in a Pupil Referral Unit (children…

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Published February 5, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

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