If Column 2 has the highest total, you’re more comfortable if:

• Students offer ideas and plans for learning and behavior,

• No stickers and candy as extrinsic rewards, students learn because they want to,

• Classroom organization is loose; students roam freely to compelete assignments

• There is noise in the classroom. You believe that noise means kids are actively learning.

If Column 3 has the highest total, you’re more comfortable when:

• Students work in groups to complete assignment,

• Students are given reasonable choices when they misbehave,

• You and the class can make rules together,

• There is a balance of order and freedom in the classroom during learning times.

You can’t really blame me for causing trouble, Ms Margole … it’s genetic predisposition.

3. Do you believe that an apple is like an appletree? Give your pros and cons.

4. The sentences below appear on a chart that is often found in baby clinics and child centers, but the second halves of the sentences have been mixed up.

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE

If a child lives with criticism,	she learns to be patient.
If a child lives with hostility,	he learns justice.
If a child lives with ridicule,	she learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame,	he learns confidence.
If a child lives with tolerance,	she learns to have faith.
If a child lives with encouragement,	he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with praise,	she learns to condemn.
If a child lives with fairness,	she learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with security,	he learns to fight.
If a child lives with approval,	he learns to feel guilt.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,	he or she learns to find love in the world.

5. Devise a ‘Good parents’ charter’ based on the points in the chart. For example:

Good parent shouldn’t be too critical, because if they are, their child will …

The rights of the child

1. Read a poem and think of your suggestion of the title to the poem. Prove your idea.

"Whose child is this?" I asked one day

Seeing a little one out at play

"Mine", said the parent with a tender smile

"Mine to keep a little while

To bathe his hands and comb his hair

To tell him what he is to wear

To prepare him that he may always be good

And each day do the things he should"

"Whose child is this?" I asked again

As the door opened and someone came in

"Mine", said the teacher with the same tender smile

"Mine, to keep just for a little while

To teach him how to be gentle and kind

To train and direct his dear little mind

To help him live by every rule

And get the best he can from school"

"Whose child is this?" I ask once more

Just as the little one entered the door

"Ours" said the parent and the teacher as they smiled

And each took the hand of the little child

"Ours to love and train together

Ours this blessed task forever."

QUESTIONNAIRE: CHILDREN AND PARENTS

2. Here is a short questionnaire on your attitude towards parent and their relation with the children. Grade how much you agree with the statement. Summarize your ideas in a short explanation how you personally think the parents should treat their children.

Children should obey their parents without question.	1 2 3 4 5
It is an advantage to be an only child.	1 2 3 4 5
Girls and boys should be brought up in the same way – without definite roles.	1 2 3 4 5
Most men would prefer to have a son as their first child.	1 2 3 4 5
You should never hit a child.	1 2 3 4 5
It is a child’s duty to look after his or her parents when they are old.	1 2 3 4 5
Parents should never quarrel in front of their children.	1 2 3 4 5
The best way of punishing a child is to stop his or her pocket money.	1 2 3 4 5
Babies are boring.	1 2 3 4 5
It is wrong for both parents to go out to work if they have small children.	1 2 3 4 5
No family should be allowed to have more than four children nowadays.	1 2 3 4 5
Children under 18 should never be out later than 11 o’clock in the evening.	1 2 3 4 5

AREN’T YOU A LAW-BREAKER?