Every hour every an average of sixty conflicts occur in a preschool room.

One per minute.

No wonder research shows that attendance in pre-school centres can hinder the

rate at which children develop social skills and increase behavior problems

for years to come.

Data does show that a child's cognitive function can improve

but in the real world how helpful is intelligence if you can't get along with others?

The way we organize preschool today is a

very new idea.

For millennium children were cared for in multi-age groups.

Infants, two-year-olds, four and nine-year-old would all be cared for

together.

This guaranteed that children would have different needs and also different skill

sets to help within the group.

Preschools typically put the same age children together in the same room.

This presents a problem because the third and fourth years of life are some

of our most aggressive years. Hitting,

pushing, shoving, and screaming are the problem solving tools available to them.

For many kids it's just too much and the last choice is to simply give up.

Aggressive acts, suspensions, and expulsions in preschool are much higher

than in grades

kindergarten through twelfth.

Expulsion rates

in these grades are two students

per a thousand.

While children in preschool are expelled at a rate that is thirteen hundred percent higher.

Under normal circumstances

a preschoolers brain is ready to learn empathy, compassion, patience,

emotional self control, and how to solve conflicts peacefully.

How could any child learn or any educator teach

when a conflict happens

every

single minute?

The current demands on both adults and children

are too great.

This dilemma must

be addressed.

The good news is that we have a proven solution so that

preschool will benefit children in both

cognitive and social ways.

Every child must learn how to stand up to aggression,

and teach the other children how they want to be treated.

What's the problem? Alex squeezed me too hard.

Oh, he squeezed you too hard.

Do you have something that you could say to him

so that he could do it different next time?

What would you say? Please next time do it softer.

Can we practice? Okay. Show me.

Do a soft hug. That's better. You did it.

You touched Stephanie and

you waited for her to look. You asked her

for what you wanted. Ready?

Stop!

I don't like it. I want my cupcake back. Yeah? Give it back.

Try one more time. With me. I want to hear. Stop. I don't like it. I want my cupcake back.

Then you say. "Please give it

back."

I bet she would if you used your big voice.

Conscious Discipline provides teachers and parents with these skills.

This allows them

to empower all children

to be successful

and personally resilient members of society.

We can shift this problem

and we can do it today.

Let's start the conversation.

Contact us immediately. Together we can make a difference.

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