The Jist

I took many notes today of brilliant things that were said that I wanted to remember, and when I write them down I will not likely reread them, but I have to think them twice to write them down and for the time when I focus on a particular thing, it gets more nural oathways devoted to it. As a trainer, I learned a technique that seems well proven of repeating things to insure they are actually stored in a way that they can more easily be recalled upon request and so I hopeby recalling s few thoughts over again I will have recorded them 3 times thereby learning the, right?

This was information given to teachers, but had such practicality to any parent.

"It is so difficult for teachers to not give attention to bad behaviors." Especially when that is the intention and thereby cause of the bad behavior.

"When trying to alter a bad behavior, it needs to be replaced."

So often, the observable behavior is a "symptom" or result of something other than what is expected. If a child is lacking a thing the may lack the ability to communicste that and so they exhibit a behavior that is percieved in a different way than it was intended. A good example would be a child who cannot concentrate because they are hungry and focused on food, but they act distracted and unable to focus and even confrontational. At first glance these behaviors might be seen as some special need or cognitive trouble, but such a child once labled as cognitively "special" is more likely to actually become such and have negative lifelong side effects instead of just getting a healthy breakfast.

That last little bit was just what seemed to be the overarching message of my instruction today.