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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I just found the Green and Natural Mom Blog via a mention on Look Who’s Drinking the Digital Coolaid, and I loved some of the examples she’s found of positive discipline.

Jane Nelsen Ed.D. has written and co-written several wonderful books and the one I have been devouring is
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers - Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful…

In the Positive Discipline book, Ms. Nelsen recalls how a teacher had a time-in section in her classroom. She filled it with fluffy pillows and cuddly toys and named it Antarctica. Any child could choose to go to Antarctica whenever they need to cool off. It was really a clever way of taking the negative connotations of time-out or the corner and made it whimsical and meaningful. It also taught them a valuable skill…retreating to cool off when we are loosing our cool with someone or a situation and are about to do or say something we shouldn’t. Can I have an Antarctica corner?? LOL.

Of course, I immediately wanted to send all of this wisdom to my children’s teachers, because, shit, do you really think this stuff will work at home? More to the point, do you really think I’d ever move out of the Antarctica Corner?

Tiffany goes on to list some terrific sources for materials to make your own cool-off corner - click to read more!

I’m definitely bookmarking this blog - she has a knack for presenting useful, informative stuff in a way I can digest, and we all know what kinds of genius that takes.