tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post1299705970665279138..comments2023-06-26T10:20:16.626-07:00Comments on pediatricOT: Don't Ask, Do TellLoren Shlaeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04203511067195560724noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-22806617882057605092010-04-21T07:45:50.509-07:002010-04-21T07:45:50.509-07:00My husband has a problem with adding "OK?&quo...My husband has a problem with adding "OK?" at the end of every statement to our children. He says he means it more like, "Did you hear me?" but the one- and three-year-old don't understand that! They take it, just like you noted, as a true question that gives them an option. I think that if he wants confirmation that he was heard, it would even be better to make the Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04142171064904548993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-84691929397972721382010-04-19T12:54:46.107-07:002010-04-19T12:54:46.107-07:00Laura, I think you have hit it right on the head r...Laura, I think you have hit it right on the head regarding that generational issue of transitioning from being "anti-authority" to becoming the authority. I had my kids in the late 70s/early 80s, coming off of my own decade of becoming an adult. I could have used some kind of workshop or retreat to deal with this, but I never even understood that it was an issue until my kids were in silvio sopranihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365412743684628629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-75239082561667901082010-04-18T17:38:43.680-07:002010-04-18T17:38:43.680-07:00Very well said, wish I can get some friends to und...Very well said, wish I can get some friends to understand this...Barbaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-5567494666984797792010-04-16T20:44:58.256-07:002010-04-16T20:44:58.256-07:00As adults, and to the extent we are in control of ...As adults, and to the extent we are in control of our own lives, we can anticipate when we will disengage from one activity to engage in another. I believe that children need to be told when there will be a transition from one activity to another. I would let my children know that the present activity would end in, say, five minutes. After a brief period of time (and I never actually looked atAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-6107678535923108282010-04-16T14:36:56.625-07:002010-04-16T14:36:56.625-07:00I think the best line in this post is that "Y...I think the best line in this post is that "You [and your child] are not equals." Why is it so hard for my generation to take the burden of this authority. "You, the adult, are in charge." ? <br /><br />I suppose we were so anti-authority some of us that it feels so difficult to be an authority. But it is a disservice to the child. <br /><br />Very good post, Loren.lauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9117160361228888191.post-7904558815012405632010-04-16T08:41:07.191-07:002010-04-16T08:41:07.191-07:00Loren,
All so true!
When I was in graduate school ...Loren,<br />All so true!<br />When I was in graduate school to get my teaching degree, we read some research about a young, white first-year teacher from the northeast who went to a southern elementary school with primarily African-American pupils. Her intonation was as you described: every "direct instruction" to the class was phrased as a question. Her students would not follow her silvio sopranihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365412743684628629noreply@blogger.com