Standing Up with Responsibility

Responsibility is one of the five key CARES skills underlying Responsive Classroom practice that help build positive proactive attributes in children both socially and academically. The other four are cooperation, assertion, empathy, and self-control.

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Categories: Building Relationships & Community, Managing Behavior, The Responsive Classroom® approach  |  Tags: Building Relationships & Community, bullying, Children's Positive Attributes, cooperation, Managing Behavior, peer pressure, responsibillity, Responsive Classroom approach, social skills, social-emotional learning  |  Post a Comment »

Parents, How Can You Best Reinforce Your Child’s Strengths?

In my entries about children’s positive attributes, you can find details about the kinds of strengths children seem to display at different ages and stages of their development. No two children are the same, of course, and each will gravitate to different interests at the same ages because different things excite different children, energize them, [...]

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