It is amazing how different we envision a good day will be and how a good day actually looks like. Today, was my day as the aid again, and though, we still had pushing from our behavior children, hitting, defiance and crying, it felt a little more manageable today. I started a new system with my behavior child (the one who got suspended) I told him that today every time I saw him doing something good, I would write it down on a note and put it on a smiley sheet of paper, every time he made a bad choice I would also write this down. His goal for today was to have more happy post it notes than sad post it notes and amazingly this seemed to work. I also told him that when he was angry or upset and needed to let out some of his energy, he just needed to pull on his ear and we would find an active activity he could do. This also seemed to work. He just used this twice today, but in both instances I saw the benefits of him removing himself from the classroom to do something active and high energy outside the classroom.
Oh, please let this continue to work!
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