Environment Plays a Major Role in Shaping Children’s Social Behavior Bad genes may make a brute, but it takes a bad environment to make a bully. A new study shows that it’s bad influences more so than genes that are behind making children bullies. Researchers say the results show that the type of social aggression… Read more »
(Sung to the tune “The Farmer in the Dell”) Manners are the way, To brighten up my day. Please and thank you is what I say To make new friends today! –
Where we choose to discipline students can determine if your conference will be successful. Never underestimate the importance of holding student discipline conferences in private. Choosing to confront a student in front of their peers can actually escalate the situation. Students will respond to a conference in public by unexpected and defiant means merely to… Read more »
Be patient and listen! That s Caring Habit s October theme of the month. The power of this theme provides an opportunity for significant character learning with youth. In our throw-away, sound-bite, instant gratification, always-on-the-go American society, can we learn to practice the axiom: Go slow, lay low, and don t blow! Let s explore…. Read more »
Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention. Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists at… Read more »
Responsibility This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody… Read more »
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. – Actor Kevin Costner
Articles and books on a variety of self-help topics are widely available. There are suggestions on how to cope, reduce stress and, in general, make your life better and more satisfying. However, some people prefer to make themselves miserable. If you are a person who hasn’t quite got the hang of how to do this,… Read more »
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. – William F. Scolavino
Gifts are not just the temporal expressions for various holidays that most often are mere things we exchange. I recently spoke to Tracey Bailey, the National Teacher of the Year, about a wonderful gift he gives his eight children at home. Every week they identify various kinds of problems they feel need to be solved… Read more »
