Chestnut Hill, MA
Brookline School Staff Children's Center

Director's Description to School's Approach to Discipline

The goal of discipline here at BSSCC is to help a child internalize the limits we set on behaviors. Thus redirection to another activity in the youngest room and encouragement of the use of language when in conflict in the toddler room, becomes group discussions about respectful language and "classroom rules" in the preschool room.

Director's Response to a Sample Discipline Scenario

Description of how teachers handle the following scenario: Child A and Child B are good friends and usually play together. One day, Child A decides to play with Child C and tells Child B, 'I don't want to play with you today. I'm playing with Child C instead.'


A teacher would ask Child A how he/she thinks that makes Child B feel. We would ask Child B to articulate how that makes him/her feel. We then would ask all three children to think of a play scenario that would involve all three of them to play together. We would remind them that at preschool, we don't say, "you can't play."

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