I have been taking alot of interest in the way Free to Be disciplines children. Particularly one child I have been paying close attention to. We will call her Lisa. Lisa is a very impulsive child who seems to have some sort of confontation evry time I am at Free To Be. She tends to get angry about something and act violently.
An example is the other day Lisa was trying to play with two other little girls. The other girls did not want to play with Lisa at that time, they were involved in their own pretend game and wanted it to be just the two of them. Lisa followed them around for ten minutes trying to play, when the little girls ran from Lisa to get away , Lisa grabbed the one little girl and punched her.
A teacher immediatly ran over and took Lisa by the hand. Lisa than tried getting away from the teacher by dragging her feet and yelling. Once inside with all three girls sat at the "peace table". This is where the teachers sits down and asks each child what happened. Of course each child has a different perspective of the situation, which I find fascinating. After the problem is solved the one at fault is warned that if something happens again he/she will have to come inside.
I like how Free To Be trys to let the children solve their own problems at the peace table. I think it is imprtant to let the children work tiffs out between eachother with the assistance of an adult.
2 comments:
Steph, glad to hear you are ok. I know Stacy at free-to-be. She was in a math class with me. She is very nice, helpful and from what I see a hard-worker.
See you on the 30th....
Steph FYI we have class on the 30th at 12:45pm
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