I was introduced to Conscious Discipline training developed by Becky Bailey, about five years ago. It is specifically designed to provide parents with the conscious awareness and skills needed to create safe, connected, problem-solving homes. It is also a dramatic strategy to handle the most difficult of challenging classroom.  Giving families a true working alternatives to  hitting, spanking or isolation techniques as a form of punishment has I know personally helped not only my work with children inside the classroom, but also raising three children independently.   Research proves that when teachers and parents exhibit self control in volatile situations that they themselves teach children emotional intelligence (Bailey, 2012)

I have used these strategies based in bailey’s research and passed on the education research techniques to my families struggling with aggressive and challenging behaviors.  Teaching children, staff, and families emotional intelligence is a teaching style that will work with persistence and consistency.  Its benefits in my family specifically have given me piece of mind and less stressful mindset to raise my child that is diagnosed with ADHD.  My child has now has the strategies to deal with frustration and feelings that become overwhelming.

I have professionally and personally observed this research affect children and their families positively.

 

 

References

 

Bailey, B. (2012). Retrieved from Conscious Discilpline: http://consciousdiscipline.com/about/research_papers.asp