DQ - CH6 - The Connected Child

Discussion Questions

1. Pick a few traditional approaches to discipline and explain why they won’t be effective with kids from hard places.

2. How do you feel when you see a child misbehaving? Do you see it as an opportunity? Does it make you feel stressed or anxious? Do you take that misbehavior personally?

3. Deep down, how might a child who is always trying to be the boss feel?

4. Do you provide the kids you serve with a “Think-It-Over” place? Describe how and when you use it, and give an example of when it was effective.

5. If you have seen a child use triangulation or manipulation as survival strategies, how have you helped the child learn to leave those strategies behind?

6. Re-do’s help physically encode the correct response in a child’s mind. Tell a story about when you offered a re-do to a child.