Overheard on the playground…”why do we have to make good choices, though? Who decides they’re good?”
So schools are full of restorative conversations but they are very much supportive of the children figuring their own challenges out.
Take emotion works or the five step program. Yes we teach children about their emotions. But we don’t always explain why something is a certain way. And this is why all these ‘lessons’ aren’t working.
Yes of course, in a decade and maybe another generation along, they will have got the message..we will have left it out for them to learn for long enough that children will start to put 1+1 together and understand why the equals makes a window.
But just think what could happen if we found ways to explain to children why we have to speak and respond certain ways.
Because simply reminding people to make good choices, doesn’t help if we don’t know how to explain why they’re good in a way they understand.
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