Lincoln, CA
Community Christian Preschool

Director's Description to School's Approach to Discipline

We try to teach the right way for children to handle disputes with one another. Before problems arise, we do role playing with puppets, dolls or each other. We encourage the children to use their words to express their frustrations or anger. We help them label their feelings and express them. We help them think of different ways to solve their problems. We also look at the environment to see if we need to change something, add something or take something out. If hitting or pushing become involved we will use a short time out to diffuse the situation. We will then converse with the student to identify what else could have been done besides hitting. We try to redirect the activity before anything physical occurs. We will also use a reward system for those students choosing to use good choices.

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.'


Comforting child b, we would talk with child a and child c asking them if child b can play with them, explaining that we can have lots of friends using teachers for example. If inclusion is not going happen, teachers would help child b to play with other classmates. If child a and c included child b praise would be abunant!. We like to point out that including friends is very nice. We usually find if children are given a choice in a positive supportive tone, they are more inclined to respond favorably.

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