The Kid Whisperer: How to use realistic empathy with kids
Published in Lifestyles
Kid Whisperer: I noticed that you got out your journal.
(30 seconds pass)
Kid Whisperer: I noticed that you have gotten the first answer done.
When kid uses a negative behavior five minutes into class, it’s time for Kid Whisperer to pull out the Calm Signal: A word or sound that he has trained himself to use to demonstrate calm empathy even when faced with a challenging behavior, and even if the behavior was designed specifically to make Kid Whisperer uncalm and mean:
Kid: You are weird! This place is stupid. Why are you noticing stuff??
Kid Whisperer: Yikes!
Kid: Wait. What?
Kid Whisperer: (to the entire class and while walking away) We’re on page 7! Who’d like to read?
(Kid rolls her eyes so hard she can see her own brain)
Realistic Empathy involves doing the right things, not just feeling the right things, because if you don’t do the right things, at some point, you will probably stop feeling the right things.
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