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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!sqwest!marcy
- From: marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Helping a sensitive child
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204933.2855@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
- References: <1993Jan19.150426.52626@watson.ibm.com> <1993Jan20.050109.22143@cs.mun.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:49:33 GMT
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- In a recent misc.kids article, jamie@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Jamie Cashin) wrote:
- >
- >>The other problem for
- >>him is that there are 2 boys in his class who are "rough" in his words,
- >>and teachers at times yell at them. He cannot take this. He gets very
- >>upset when teachers yell at another kid.
- >
- >I think you should explore this further... mayve a baby sitter has been
- >yelling at him, or something.. the only reason I can see that he would get
- >upset at yelling, is it triggers some unhappy memory.. and it seems to be
- >recent, right?
-
- I think it's a good idea to explore this further, but I caution you
- against assuming that his upset is due to an unhappy memory.
-
- When I was about 6 and my brother was about 4, my parents left us with
- my grandmother for a few hours, including lunchtime. My brother told
- my grandmother he did not want PB&J, he wanted baloney and catsup. My
- grandmother went ballistic. She yelled at him and told him he was being
- sassy and that no child was going to tell her what to do. Scott cried
- and then shrugged it off. I, on the other hand, was still pale and
- shaky when my parents came home two hours later. I had never heard
- anyone yell like that and I was *very* upset.
-
- I had no bad memories of being yelled at; it was the fact that I had
- never seen someone yell at anyone else that was so upsetting.
-
- As to what the original poster should do, here's what I did in a similar
- situation, where Alison (then 7) was not comfortable with the way her
- teacher was expressing her anger (which was by being sarcastic, which
- I didn't care for, but which was far outweighed by this teacher's good
- qualities): We role-played, where she would pretend to misbehave and
- I would say something sarcastic.
-
- This seemed to help her discomfort by making the behaviour seem less
- alien. Alison, of course, tried to use that technique to express her
- anger, but I was just clear with her that it wasn't an acceptable
- behaviour in our family. Even though we couldn't make the teacher
- stop acting that way, and had to work together to find ways for
- Alison to cope with the behaviour.
-
- Marcy
-
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-
- Marcy Thompson
- SoftQuad (West)
- marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (preferred) or marcy@sq.com
-