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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 573416" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>So the protocol is to cover all <em>four</em> hyperactive kids?</p><p>Are the other parents involved?</p><p>Can you meet together and work it through with a united stand?</p><p></p><p>Rule #1 for hyperactive kids is... more activity of the structured type. Some kinds go over better than others but in general activity works. I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and a school full of troubled kids... and one top-notch principal who was obviously ex-military, because his approach was... basic physical activity. Run laps, do pushups, jumping jacks, etc. If you couldn't cooperate in class or play nice on the playgroud, then you had too much energy to burn, so you got sent to burn it off. There were enough hyper kids that nobody ever had to do it alone... it was 2 or 5 or a dozen... it also settled some who were getting wound up, because they didn't want to be next. Our class would leave to go upstairs to the library, and... there would be 5 kids in the hallway with the principal, doing jumping jacks. <em>WITH the principal</em>. (he could have done it all day, or so it seemed to us kids... and he was OLD - literally OLD, as in about to retire)</p><p></p><p>The trick is... you need to catch them BEFORE it escalates. Restless? go burn off steam. It shouldn't get as far as "fighting".</p><p>And it needs to be done <em>with</em>, not <em>to</em>. Now, try to get buy-in on that from your nice director lady!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 573416, member: 11791"] So the protocol is to cover all [I]four[/I] hyperactive kids? Are the other parents involved? Can you meet together and work it through with a united stand? Rule #1 for hyperactive kids is... more activity of the structured type. Some kinds go over better than others but in general activity works. I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and a school full of troubled kids... and one top-notch principal who was obviously ex-military, because his approach was... basic physical activity. Run laps, do pushups, jumping jacks, etc. If you couldn't cooperate in class or play nice on the playgroud, then you had too much energy to burn, so you got sent to burn it off. There were enough hyper kids that nobody ever had to do it alone... it was 2 or 5 or a dozen... it also settled some who were getting wound up, because they didn't want to be next. Our class would leave to go upstairs to the library, and... there would be 5 kids in the hallway with the principal, doing jumping jacks. [I]WITH the principal[/I]. (he could have done it all day, or so it seemed to us kids... and he was OLD - literally OLD, as in about to retire) The trick is... you need to catch them BEFORE it escalates. Restless? go burn off steam. It shouldn't get as far as "fighting". And it needs to be done [I]with[/I], not [I]to[/I]. Now, try to get buy-in on that from your nice director lady! [/QUOTE]
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