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Extreme Animals by Nicola Davies is a book that we’ve been enjoying for a few weeks now. It’s a children’s book filled with engaging scientific facts about how some animals are able to survive in extreme weather conditions. The illustrations are fun. There are scientific facts about emperor penguins, polar bears, frogsicles (frogs who freeze for the winter and thaw in summer), camels, reptiles, etc. I was fascinated by all these facts along with my 5 year olds 🙌🏼

All seasons tree with perler (fuse) beads...an easy self care project that I worked on while helping my boys with their own perler bead projects. I was going to make an autumn tree but my daughter had an even better idea - a four seasons tree. So, this is what I ended up with ✨ So grateful for these precious moments of connection with my kids amidst all the chaos and busy-ness ❤️

Recently finished craft project with daughter ...perler bead peacock + acrylic pouring on canvas. This was FUN 💕

Wow! What a beautiful book! If you are a nature lover like me, I think you will enjoy this book. It’s a collection of short poems about nature, with gorgeous illustrations to go along with the beautiful words. I loved it more than my kids actually. We have three children’s books written by this author - Nicola Davies - checked out from our library at the moment, and all three of them are about nature. All three of them are absolutely amazing. Highly recommend this author and her books.

“Plan A greatly heightens the likelihood of challenging behavior in challenging kids....Plan A doesn’t help us figure out why the kid isn’t meeting our expectations in the first place...Plan A doesn’t teach lagging skills or durably resolve problems giving rise to challenging behavior....Even in ‘ordinary’ kids, Plan A is just an application of ‘might makes right’. Isn’t ‘might makes right’ the wrong turn that society took a long time ago? If there’s another way to help kids meet adult expectations without teaching them that might makes right, shouldn’t we be interested?” . 🌼 Plan C involves dropping a given expectation completely, at least temporarily. When you’re using Plan C, you’re not solving any problems or teaching any lacking thinking skills. But Plan C can help adults remove low-priority expectations, thereby helping a kid to be more ‘available’ to work on higher-priority problems or skills and reducing the likelihood of challenging behavior.” . 🌼 Plan B involves Collaborative Problem Solving. Plan B helps adults clarify and understand a child’s concerns about or perspective on a particular unsolved problem...Plan B also helps the kid understand the adult’s concerns about the problem. And Plan B helps adults and kids work together toward mutually satisfactory solutions so that both parties’ concerns are addressed, the problem gets solved, and,...lagging skills get taught.” . 🌼 ”Question: Doesn’t helping kids with behavioral challenges take a lot of time?” . Answer: Yes, helping, especially the kind that involves teaching skills and solving problems durably, takes time. But perpetually dealing with kids’ challenges in ways that aren’t working takes much more time. And don’t forget, Proactive Plan B is taking place at opportune moments, not under emergent conditions.” . 🌼 I’ve used Dr Greene’s Plan B suggestions from his other book ‘The Explosive Child’ with great success with one of my boys. I am really excited to see this extended to all challenging behaviors that children exhibit as symptoms of lacking skills. I know this is a far cry, but I would love to see this adapted by all schools, most of which seem to default to Plan A now.

“Adults have a strong tendency to automatically apply consequences to challenging behavior. Whether of the natural or artificial variety, consequences do not teach lagging cognitive skills or help kids solve problems.” ~Dr Ross W. Greene, Lost At School

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