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A 3 page paper that reviews an article entitled Developmentally Appropriate Child Guidance: Helping Children Gain Self-Control. The article discusses rule setting, communication and examples. This writer is highly critical of this article and supports the criticism. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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labors under the belief that punishing children is wrong, that it will destroy their self-concept. This is the main idea in the article. Do not punish children, let punishment
occur naturally. One of his examples is a child who leaves her painting on the floor instead of putting it on the shelf. Another child walks on the painting and
ruins it. This is what Mosier calls a natural consequence and is punishment in itself. Mosier says that children should create the rules for the classroom, not the teacher.
He suggests that at about age 4, children are capable of proposing rules for the classroom all by themselves. It is better, he says than having the teacher create the
rules. This is democratic, he says. However, in fact, it is better for the teacher to identify at least one rule that will lead the classroom to where the teacher
wants it to go. This is usually about respect - we all show respect for each other. The other rules he lists are good but there is no guarantee that
a 4, 5, or even 6 year old will come up with those rules. The only correct suggestions is that rules need to be phrased in the positive, e.g., with
do and not dont. He discuses positive reinforcement, specifically, verbal reinforcement "for socially competent behavior" (p. 165). This contradicts his later comment that teachers should not praise Joshs painting
because if praise does not continue for all of Joshs painting, Josh will somehow feel diminished. He talks about giving tokens but the tokens cannot be used for a prize.
Instead, children just collect the tokens but they can be attached to a tree. Does Mosier think it is not demoralizing for one student to have a tree full of
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