Q&A For Teachers & Parents: Kids Daydreaming, Not Listening, Acting Silly in Class
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a child or student who daydreams and doesn't pay attention? How about a student who reads during math class or who acts out in class to make others laugh? Kirk provides 5 practical, creative strategies in this Q&A for teachers and parents. Want your school's teachers to have access to Kirk's training? Email Casey@CelebrateCalm.com with the word TEACHER in the subject line.
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| 1:06.0 | How do you bring them back? What about a kid who's like reading a book during math class? How do you handle that? |
| 1:13.7 | What about kids who do things in a little bit of a weird way to learn? What about kids that struggle |
| 1:21.0 | with social skills, right? Because a lot of us have those kids. And what do you do with that |
| 1:25.7 | kid in class who's acting out in order to be funnier and have |
| 1:31.2 | other kids left? How do you deal with those things? Well, good news. We're going to deal with that |
| 1:35.6 | on this episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Mart. I'm founder of Celebrate Calm. |
| 1:40.1 | You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. These questions come from teachers actually because I just did |
| 1:45.7 | teacher training in person. We just did a teacher's podcast recently. And so I got these five questions. |
| 1:52.7 | And I thought, oh, I'm going to try to do a quick Q&A because teachers and parents, you're really busy. |
| 1:58.2 | And you have these kids and they're often enigmas, right? |
| 2:00.9 | They do weird things and the typical responses to them, the typical strategies and interventions |
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