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What Do You Really Believe?
Dealing With Difficult Classroom Situations With words we say what we think we believe but our actions reveal what we really believe. When our oldest was three and our youngest 10 months old we went to a Christar training conference. The children were separated by age. That evening we discovered our oldest suddenly had an imaginary friend. While playing, children often imagine their dolls or stuffed animals are interacting with them. Why is this need for community so fundamentally a part of us that even small children, when they feel alone, are compelled to imagine a friend? Could it be a homing device to bring us to God? The number…
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God’s Power Tools – #6
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.” –Charles Dickens Our sixth power tool is body language. We all have it. We all use it. We all have sadly, through body language, expressed, so loudly our own anxiety or frustration that the children miss our words. “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. My teacher had a special way of teaching. She could communicate as much with her body language as she did with her words. I learned a lot about what is important…
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Behavior and Classroom Management…What Would You Do?
What would you do if…during circle time with your preschoolers, one of the little girls in your class was pinching the little girl next to her. How would you handle this situation?