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Category: behaviour management

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

Attention and behaviour management!

If you put your child in a room FULL of toys and sat in it with him or her, YOU…

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Published January 29, 2019
Categorized as behaviour management

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