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Appropriate Behavioral Examples and Limits

To reflect on providing appropriate behavioral examples and teaching limits, use the questions to guide your original response and comments on the posts of at least two classmates.

• Notice how adults respond when children get hurt or upset. Do they deny children’s negative feelings or accept them? Do they try to distract children from emotional or physical pain? What is your own common response? Do you need to work at learning new ways to respond to a child’s pain? How will you do this?
• Observe the difference in classrooms where teachers merely tell children to clean up and those where teachers work with children showing them useful clean-up approaches. What are the differences in behavior with the children?