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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 381244" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Hi and Welcome!! It is nice to see a teacher who cares so much. You are the type of teacher I want for my children!!</p><p> </p><p>We rely on several books here. We all have our favorites, and these are the ones I found most helpfu: "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene; "What Your Explosive Child is Trying to Tell You" by Dr. Doug Riley, and whichever Love and Logic books seem best suited for this (I am not familiar with the books aimed at teachers, but I am positive that they are excellent.), these are all books you should read for help. </p><p> </p><p>Evaluation/testing is a must. Parents need to be spoken with and asked to help. The child may have something obvious (parents divorcing bitterly) or hidden (some kind of abuse) going on at home. Or home may be fine except for the rages and violent behavior of the child. The child needs help, but what kind of help is hard to figure out. That is why I listed the books above. It could even be related to diet. Some kids react this way when they eat various foods. Gluten and Casein are the ones many of our kiddos don't handle well. Docs can test for allergies and celiac disease (body cannot process gluten), but sometimes the test results are normal and eliminating the foods help anyway. The boy could have various sensory problems, and many other things. It could be related to or caused by fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects, or exposure to something else.</p><p> </p><p>Without testing you won't know. the books will help you figure out some strategies to help him, and it may be that you have to keep sending him out of the room because he is just too much of a problem. Given his level of violence, he may need to be hospitalized to figure out how to stop that. Many parents balk at that, but the school needs to insist on some kind of consequence for every single time he hurts someone or is threatening or violent in any way. It may need a large, imposing man to do this.</p><p> </p><p>If the parents are not willing to work with him, to help him, it may get to the point with his violence that the police need to be called. Especially if he assaults another student. The other student's parents may want to charge him with assault and the school with negligence for not keeping their child safe. You may want to suggest this if they didn't figure out some way to help you ASAP.</p><p> </p><p>What an unfun and scary place your room must be for the other kids. Until he is able to control himself better he is likely to be causing significant anxiety in other students. It will be good if you can be on the alert to this, and make sure to let theschool counselor know that some of your other students may need some support during this period until a plan to handle the troubled child's behaviors is implemented. You may find that various sensory activities are helpful to soothe the other students. There is a book called "The Out of Sync Child Has Fun" that is packed with various sensory activities for kids with all sorts of sensory issues. Those that are soothing to many kids with sensory issues are also soothing to others. Many of the activities can be done with simple, cheap items and/or items you have on hand. The book includes many ways to modify the more expensive ideas to a tap water budget (I doubt that teachers have even a beer budget to work with these days!). Some of them might help in your room.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for coming here. It is nice to hear from a teacher who really cares.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 381244, member: 1233"] Hi and Welcome!! It is nice to see a teacher who cares so much. You are the type of teacher I want for my children!! We rely on several books here. We all have our favorites, and these are the ones I found most helpfu: "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene; "What Your Explosive Child is Trying to Tell You" by Dr. Doug Riley, and whichever Love and Logic books seem best suited for this (I am not familiar with the books aimed at teachers, but I am positive that they are excellent.), these are all books you should read for help. Evaluation/testing is a must. Parents need to be spoken with and asked to help. The child may have something obvious (parents divorcing bitterly) or hidden (some kind of abuse) going on at home. Or home may be fine except for the rages and violent behavior of the child. The child needs help, but what kind of help is hard to figure out. That is why I listed the books above. It could even be related to diet. Some kids react this way when they eat various foods. Gluten and Casein are the ones many of our kiddos don't handle well. Docs can test for allergies and celiac disease (body cannot process gluten), but sometimes the test results are normal and eliminating the foods help anyway. The boy could have various sensory problems, and many other things. It could be related to or caused by fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects, or exposure to something else. Without testing you won't know. the books will help you figure out some strategies to help him, and it may be that you have to keep sending him out of the room because he is just too much of a problem. Given his level of violence, he may need to be hospitalized to figure out how to stop that. Many parents balk at that, but the school needs to insist on some kind of consequence for every single time he hurts someone or is threatening or violent in any way. It may need a large, imposing man to do this. If the parents are not willing to work with him, to help him, it may get to the point with his violence that the police need to be called. Especially if he assaults another student. The other student's parents may want to charge him with assault and the school with negligence for not keeping their child safe. You may want to suggest this if they didn't figure out some way to help you ASAP. What an unfun and scary place your room must be for the other kids. Until he is able to control himself better he is likely to be causing significant anxiety in other students. It will be good if you can be on the alert to this, and make sure to let theschool counselor know that some of your other students may need some support during this period until a plan to handle the troubled child's behaviors is implemented. You may find that various sensory activities are helpful to soothe the other students. There is a book called "The Out of Sync Child Has Fun" that is packed with various sensory activities for kids with all sorts of sensory issues. Those that are soothing to many kids with sensory issues are also soothing to others. Many of the activities can be done with simple, cheap items and/or items you have on hand. The book includes many ways to modify the more expensive ideas to a tap water budget (I doubt that teachers have even a beer budget to work with these days!). Some of them might help in your room. Thanks for coming here. It is nice to hear from a teacher who really cares. [/QUOTE]
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