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The Seven Basic Skills of Discipline
- Composure – Becoming the person you want your children to be
- Encouragement – Building a school family
- Assertiveness – Respectfully setting limits
- Choices – Building self-esteem and will power
- Positive Intent – Creating teachable moments, turning conflict into cooperation
- Empathy – Handling the fussing and the fits
- Consequences – Helping children learn from their mistakes
These skills change how adults respond to conflict in such a way as to facilitate the development of the frontal lobes in children. Through the Powers and Skills, adults stay in control of themselves and in charge of children.
As adults begin to change their attitudes and skills that we do not possess these behaviors ourselves, so will the children in their care. We cannot teach behaviors and skills that we do not possess ourselves.
