Strategies for Reinforce Kindness, Acceptance, and Inclusion at a Young Age
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Strategies for Reinforce Kindness, Acceptance, and Inclusion at a Young Age
For this week’s episode, we are excited to bring you another episode where we answer your most frequently asked questions in 60 seconds or less. This week’s question is, “What are some strategies to reinforce messages of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion at a young age?” If you are looking for more information around this topic, check out our full response at https://bit.ly/2oe5RaK.
- Author: NBPC
- Duration: 2:07 minutes
- Date Posted: 10/2/2019
Series: PACERTalks About Bullying - Season 3
We are thrilled to return for a third season of PACERTalks About Bullying with more interviews, stories, and tips on making the world a kinder, more accepting, and more inclusive place. New this season is the “60 second response,” in which students, adults, and PACER's NBPC staff help answer your most frequently asked questions about bullying prevention.
Transcript
>> Hey, everyone. Welcome back to PACER talks about bullying. I'm Bailey. We're glad you're here.
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>> On today's episode, we're excited to share a video where we answer your most frequently asked questions in 60 seconds or less. Today's question is, what are some strategies to reinforce messages of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion at a young age? Now that you know the question, let's get into the answer.
When working with younger students, the best way to reinforce kindness, acceptance, and inclusion is to talk about and encourage positive and supportive behaviors, as well as help kids understand what hurtful and negative behaviors are. When it comes to these negative behaviors in younger students, it's important to identify that they're still learning how to get along with each other and understand their feelings. While preschool-aged children may be mean or act aggressively if they don't get what they want, this is age-appropriate and is not considered bullying. When children enter kindergarten or elementary school, behaviors may involve bullying if there's an imbalance of power and if a situation continues even with the help of an adult.
With all that being said, reinforcing kindness, acceptance, and inclusion is a great way for younger students to develop skills on how to get along. Other strategies include practicing roleplaying, reading stories about diversity, exploring feelings, and setting clear rules for behaviors. And that's a wrap on this week's episode of PACER talks about bullying.
Make sure you join us right back here next week as we have other professionals share their response to the exact same question. They have some amazing insights that you won't want to miss. We'll see you then, and remember, together, we can create a world without bullying. See ya!
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