Any educator who wants to help create productive classroom settings by managing
Tough Kid behavior
Not exact matches
I tend to favor the middle ground: it's your responsibility to set limits, check up on your
kids occasionally (the amount you will do this depends on their
behavior), hold them accountable when it's needed, and teach them how to make good choices even in
tough social situations.
In this slim volume,
Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on
kids» brains and
behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.
In his last book, How Children Succeed, author Paul
Tough identified a litany ways that living in poverty can affect
kids» brains, making it more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their
behaviors and achieve in school.
Setting limits for
kids in a calm and consistent way and responding to problem
behavior when it occurs are among the
toughest parts of parenting.
This is perhaps because some
kids are prone to more challenging
behaviors, which are
tough to manage compared to others.
Tough Kid Training is focused on providing practical and proven strategies to help students manage their behavioral excesses and deficits, and learn appropriate
behaviors.
Other training options include additional training days for advanced
Tough Kid strategies and / or training for special audiences (e.g., school leadership,
behavior specialists, teachers of students in special education who are in self - contained classrooms or have EBD diagnoses, etc.).
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the
Toughest Negotiators You Know — Your
Kids by Paul Raeburn and Kevin Zollman (Macmillan / Scientific American / FSG; Blackstone Audio; OverDrive Sample) combines the insight of a father of five with the expertise of an academic to offer ways to help parents game their
kid's most common and exasperating
behaviors, such a lying, fighting, and not doing what they were told.
The
toughest, baddest
kids would always shrink when their parents entered the room because the anxiety and pain the parents experienced overwhelmed the
kids» bad
behavior.
It addresses teachers» most commonly referred
behaviors, giving educators the actual tools to teach some of our
tougher kids the skills they need to be successful.
Tough Kids often have a difficult time getting along in social situations, largely because they have not learned appropriate ways of behaving.The
Tough Kid Social Skills Book teaches those learned
behaviors that students need to get along successfully in a majority of social situations.