Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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232 appearances
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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And at the time I spoke with him, writing a typical parenting feature story, he was about to move his family from Boston to Maine.
He was uprooting his teen kids and his wife and leaving his practice at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
And that impressed me.
So I started learning more about his model of discipline, which started with children in locked psychiatric work.
Who really had intense um challenges that made them a threat to themselves or others.
And his model, which is very collaborative and cooperative, was remarkably successful.
So he managed to reduce holds in those settings from twenty a month to zero.
So from kids needing to be restrained physically or medically so often.
suddenly they were just cooperating with with the adults and he moved his model into juvenile justice settings and had very similar success.
And then in schools where principals were telling me that their discipline problems had been reduced seventy, eighty percent that
Teachers were able to do more instruction, the kids were getting along better, and that's what led to the Mother Jones story and really this whole book.
And in terms of what I hope the book will do in the world, I I looked at his model and three other discipline models that are based on research and and science for what kids need and and how kids' brains develop.
And from those I pulled the three common threads that I think they all share, which are a very strong adult-child connection, communication about what's going on, the problem at hand.
And then a focus on capability building so that children are seen as needing skills, as I said earlier, and not bad, that kids need to build their ability, their social emotional skills, and their ability to manage their own behavior, thoughts, and emotion.
And so all of these models share that, and there's so many examples in the book of how to implement those three.
Three steps connection, communication, and capability building.
And as for what I hope it'll do in the world, I would love for adults to stop seeing kids who are acting out as bad kids or being difficult or somehow a problem, and instead look at it as an opportunity to strengthen that child's skills, whatever this skill at hand may be.
And really, it's good when kids misbehave because then
it shows us how to help them.
It's this red flag or signal to us that, oh, attention is needed here.
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