This is a great interview with Bev Bos, one of the nation’s foremost experts on preschool learning. The principles she discusses–wonder, self-discovery, and tangible experience–are the basics we encourage at In a Child’s Path.
Bev Bos on Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resoltuion by Bev Bos
“The most important thing to remember about discipline for young children is that it needs to be kind, tender and humane. And so often it is not. Why are adults so afraid of being kind when disciplining? I think there are lots of reasons: one reason stems from how we were disciplined as children. In a tense moment we often go back to how we were raised even if we resented how we were treated. Fear, also, keeps us from being kind and tender because we are so afraid that our child will become a rude, hurtful, out of control adult. Sometimes we just don’t know a better way.”