But They Spit, Scratch and Swear: A School-Age Care Survival Guide

by Mary Steiner Whelan

Discipline, or behavior guidance, is often the most difficult part of what teachers do. This survival guide to school-age care lists the "do's and don'ts of discipline" for teachers with little experience in the field to help them establish behavior guidance techniques and philosophies in their programs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967992508
• ISBN13: 9780967992501
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Redleaf Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

But They Spit, Scratch, and Swear!

Do you know children who spit scratch and swear? At last! A comprehensive book about behavior guidance with school-age children. Written especially for you who work in school-age child care, But They Spit, Scratch, and Swear! will assist you in the most dynamic and often frustrating part of dealing with children - behavior guidance. @ Reduce the number of discipline problems in your work with children. Filled with ideas and do's and don't, this book is practical enough to implement and far reaching enough to have long-term results. @ The way that you guide children will affect who they are and will become. These thought-provoking exercises, examples, and stories will help you move from the ineffective and exhausting punishment-control model to the effective and rewarding teaching-relationship model @ But They Spit, Scratch, and Swear! is the important guide for staff members, supervisors, trainers, parents, mentors, college teachers - anyone working with school-age children. --- from book's back cover