I came across an article that talks about how to deal with behaviors that come about around the holidays and how to deal with them. "Before You Throw a Holiday Party"
By Terri Mauro, has a suggestion that I may not be able to use now, for I am not a parent, but I want to apply to my classroom.
She makes the point that your child may need his/her own "private" area to go to when people are there. This place is where no one else can go and where your child can have alone time with comforting items.
Relating this to my current job and a student I am struggling with behavior wise, a light went on. My student is autistic and very oppositional defiant....maybe just stubborn! However, he frequently likes to do his own thing and not interact with his peers. Using the idea of giving him his own private place, I am thinking this could help with some behaviors. If my student knows he has a place to go to when he starts to get frustrated, some of his behaviors might go away and he may feel more calm at school. I am blessed that I have 3 separate rooms at my disposal, and even a closet that he often likes to chase ghost out of. Maybe I could make that closet his place to go to, to be with his ghost and to talk to himself like he frequently does. I like the idea of a private place...I will have to work on setting this up.
(Sorry....this was a thinking aloud blog with me trying to make sense of what I was thinking!)
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