In day 12 we answer the questions on the child displaying bullying behavior. Should you punish them or is that counter to our ultimate goal of creating peace. What do they need to practice and learn so they can stop the bullying behavior and have the courage to stand up for others?
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The number one thing that keeps us from doing our very best work is distractions. They may be from outside sources or the distractions may be from within ourselves. Whether we are adults or children we can easily be thinking about the next thing we need to do or worse want to do that make it difficult to work diligently.
Here is a list of some of the major distractions that affect both young and older adults:
What is it that distracts you the most? Which from the list above is the one that gets you off course and what can you do to deal with those distractions? If we are distracted and are not working diligently our time is wasted and we find we do not have the time to do the other things that we would like to do.
Here are a couple of suggestions on the distractions listed here. Continue reading “Life Skills: Distractions and What Will Help Us Keep Our Focus to Work With Diligence”
There are some simple questions that you can ask yourself and your children no matter their age, to determine what beliefs you hold and see if your beliefs promote or prevent bullying? Find them on Bully Prevention Partners or hear them on this video message.
Have you ever noticed how when you are trying to practice doing your work with diligence that things get in the way and we get distracted from our work or task? We use the command to “FOCUS” to our children and for many of us we say it to ourselves too.
There are so many distractions that can get in the path of working with diligence, some of them from the outside and others from within. For our children, noise, other children playing, or making funny faces is hard to resist looking at – taking our attention away from our work. We want to look at what is happening and laugh too.
What can you do if distractions are happening when you are trying to finish your work? The 3 step plan we talked to our students about was:
If your child is having a hard time with keeping their mind on the task at hand, practice these strategies to give them the courage to use them in their classroom.
Children can be taught important bullying prevention skills which are also important life skills. They can be used as a guide to solving social problems and help them to know how to be assertive while showing empathy.
Bully Prevention Partners presents Day 10 of 31 Days of Bully Prevention Messages. Join Bully Prevention Partners for more information.
Besides hurting others, bullies damage themselves, short term and long term each time they hurt others. The effects last long into adulthood and include some shocking findings. This is Day 9 in our series examining the effect of bullying behavior on the bully.
