"Ms. Haley, I'm changing my name. My name isn't going to be Zoe any more. It's Superwoman."
In other news, this management-without-colors is a handful. All of the sudden I need to be really creative all the time. Literally, the way that I am handling children is exactly the opposite of what I was doing before. TFA was all children-listen-no-excuses. Now, I'm like, "Oh, you shouldn't jump down the stairs because it's dangerous." And of course, a color change is a lot more convincing to a five year old than danger.
Frankly, I am really struggling - this is hell for a perfectionist.
Are you saying that you must "reason" with 5 year olds when they do something they shouldn't? If that worked every kid would be so well behaved. O M G!
ReplyDeleteChildren, especially little ones, need positive do's and don'ts that they can understand at their level. Dangerous is something they haven't the experience with to understand it. No wonder it's so hard. l,g