A button-pusher is when a teacher feels that a child\u2019s behaviour is just making them feel like they want to explode because they are just \u2013 it touches something that they haven\u2019t dealt with yet. It\u2019s the behaviour that they are almost afraid of and when they do respond to it they usually respond in an out of control manner because it was something-sometimes it\u2019s an unexpected behaviour but more often it\u2019s a behaviour that they just don\u2019t know how to deal with it, like running away. What do you do? If you run after them then you\u2019re playing the game. If you don\u2019t run after them when the parents come to pick them up at the end of the day and you say \u201cWell, at 10:00 he was in the block area but I don\u2019t know where he is now,\u201d you run in to a bit of a problem. So for me, that\u2019s a button-pusher because I\u2019m just not sure how to respond to it in a way that will support the child. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well what research has shown is that when our buttons do get pushed we have something called an amygdala hijack. And when that happens, our cortisol level really rises. Our blood pressure goes way up. And what the research has also shown is that it takes about six seconds; it takes about six seconds for your brain to reorganize itself. So when you feel that you\u2019re starting to see red and oh, I can\u2019t believe she did that, if you take a deep breath and one way to kind of get the rest of your brain, the thinking part of your brain to function is to maybe create a math problem where you need to have your frontal lobe active, in order. So even just something in your mind as 5+3=8 will encourage your mental process to change. And what I suggest to teachers often is that when the children are out of control, they\u2019re often experiencing their own mini-amygdala hijack so that if you actually share with the children-\u201cthis behaviour is making me really angry; I\u2019m going to take a deep breath and I\u2019m going to count to five or I\u2019m going to, you know, 5+3\u201d..or whatever you would say out loud, you\u2019re role-modeling a strategy as to how they can deal with when they\u2019re having that behaviour as well. I think our biggest job is that of a role model and so if we can demonstrate the importance of self-regulation they begin to see that they can achieve it as well. If we lose it then we\u2019re role-modeling behaviour that we don\u2019t want them to engage in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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