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Discipline Without Stress Newsletter – May 2016

PROMOTING RESPONSIBILITY & LEARNING
Volume 16 Number 5 May 2016
 
Newsletter #178 Archived

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. Welcome
  2. Promoting Responsibility
  3. Increasing Effectiveness
  4. Improving Relationships
  5. Promoting Learning
  6. Parenting
  7. Discipline without Stress (DWS)
  8. Reviews and Testimonials 

1. WELCOME

MONTHLY QUOTE:

A failure is just a lesson to learn for the next round.
—Daniel Goleman
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DISCIPLINE ONLINE ELEARNING has been updated with six of the 54 modules now available to view. Link to FREE TRIAL

On April 30, I presented a three-hour seminar to counselors, teachers, and parents in the Los Angeles area. I offered a special rate for the eLearning program to the 100 participants a $99.50. Since repetition is the mother of learning and since most people need to have a … >>>

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A Discipline Counseling Lesson

This is an example of how to have a student change attitude and behavior.

While working with a middle school for three days, I was asked by the counselor to conduct a discipline counseling session. The request was to work with a student who was a major challenge to the school.

The counselor sat in the session and observed how I used noncoercion and collaboration to prompt a change in the student’s attitude and behavior.

I started the meeting by asking the student, “What was the situation that brought you to the office?” Alicia (not her real name) replied that she had called someone a bad name.

I mentioned that it seemed to me that the impulse of being unkind … >>>

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