Extremely useful insights for parents from Dr. Fisher. We learned it all the hard way and are still using these principles with our now grown offspring. Please keep writing and sharing your compassion, insights, and wisdom. All our children deserve safe, loving, and informed spaces to grow in.
Totally agree! We were speaking about this just the other day. My now 20 y.o and studying inclusive education was always the kid with few stickers - every time a parent came in the class to help we all knew who were the “good” kids.
It was interesting to hear my sons comments on how at staff meetings (he works part time as a teachers aide) there has been discussion of similar charts about which he spoke firmly against. It was as if the teachers thought his was a novel view point! Yet I guess it perhaps has extra impact when it comes from a young man sharing the impact on him of those charts - it’s not just theory...
I really appreciated how you articulated this.
The great irony for me is that having worked so hard to advocate for him throughout school he is now studying education with a desire to make things better for other kids - yet I have belatedly come to the view that the best thing I could have done would have been to withdraw him and home school him
Extremely useful insights for parents from Dr. Fisher. We learned it all the hard way and are still using these principles with our now grown offspring. Please keep writing and sharing your compassion, insights, and wisdom. All our children deserve safe, loving, and informed spaces to grow in.
Totally agree! We were speaking about this just the other day. My now 20 y.o and studying inclusive education was always the kid with few stickers - every time a parent came in the class to help we all knew who were the “good” kids.
It was interesting to hear my sons comments on how at staff meetings (he works part time as a teachers aide) there has been discussion of similar charts about which he spoke firmly against. It was as if the teachers thought his was a novel view point! Yet I guess it perhaps has extra impact when it comes from a young man sharing the impact on him of those charts - it’s not just theory...
I really appreciated how you articulated this.
The great irony for me is that having worked so hard to advocate for him throughout school he is now studying education with a desire to make things better for other kids - yet I have belatedly come to the view that the best thing I could have done would have been to withdraw him and home school him