Tag: behavioral challenges
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Better Questions: “How Can I Connect With This Kid?”
It’s easy to focus on outward behavior. After all, how can you do any growing, and real teaching or helping or coaching without some basic discipline? But… is it possible we have misunderstood what that whole “discipline” concept really is?
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Better Questions: “What Is The Need Behind This Behavior?”
So much of the time, especially in working with kids with trauma in their stories, we see behavior that is, at least on the surface, troublesome or problematic. It can change the whole situation if we learn to ask a better question. What is the need behind this behavior?
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Better Questions: “Why Would This Make Sense?”
If we would care well for people (particularly kids) with trauma in their stories, we have to learn to ask this crucial question—why would the response or reaction we are witnessing make sense? It might be the beginning of helping them to a better, less fearful life by opening the door for our compassionate, gracious…
Fostering Grace 