Posts Tagged "10"
“Not fair!” Could Your Child Be Right?
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It happened in less than five minutes. 10 YO David went from screaming, “Not fair!” when he thought he was losing, to accepting loss graciously. How? I was helping a mom with a group of 3rd-5th graders. They had just finished a craft and were bouncing off the walls with pent-up energy but had to stay inside. The mom suggested they play “Hot Potato” with a little stuffed bear. I sat with...
Read MoreWould You Set a Boundary?
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At a park I saw a 10 or 11 YO boy climbing around by himself on a partially washed-out concrete footbridge over a creek. The creek was still high and fast-flowing, though not raging the way it had been just a week before when we’d experienced torrential rains and record flooding. The boy was balancing on the exposed girders where the concrete was missing and poking under the remaining...
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