9.17.2009
Time Out
Day 4 of school for Ella. Her teacher approached the van in all seriousness at pick up. She said there was an incident and Ella had to go into time out. Apparently she was hitting the toy another child was playing with. The child asked her to stop as did the teacher. She was in one of the feisty moods where she was going to do what she wanted to do no matter what. We like to refer to that around here as selfishness, b.k.a "SIN". I had her apologize to her teacher. Hopefully we can bump into the child next week and apologize to him too. On the way home I decided role play may be the best way to teach about this scenario. So, once we got home I had Streed be the other child, and I was the teacher and Ella was of course Ella. We acted out what she did as well as what she should have done. Then I had her bring one of her babies in to the room. We were all the same characters and we acted out a similar scenario. I just wanted Ella to see how it feels to be the one being mistreated. It went well. The book Don't Make Me Count to Three is big on role play. I highly recommend it to anyone with a child two or older.
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Role play is a good teaching/learning tool; one that our workers use with their clients. Not that I am comparing Ella to a FOCUS client; I would never do that. I think the role playing makes them stop and think more clearly about what they did. I mean they are not always going to think about what they did in time out, although I believe in time out and spankings. Yes, DHR, I said spankings. I just love the title of that book. I wonder just how many times it has been said; the counting to three thing. More times than our national debt, I'm sure. Hugs for everyone! Gran
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