clatterbane:

sarajaneadventures:

shuttheupfuck:

fangirlinginleatherboots:

teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults

could save other ppls lives too.

It’s a rule in my classroom that you get to walk out and cool off if you tell me first, and tell me why after.

Hopefully taking into account that sometimes people will lose speech when they’re overwhelmed/stressed enough. So that they can’t explain that they need a break until after they’ve had a chance to recover some. It may also take a while before they can explain anything afterwards.

Better if you can leave before that point, but that can be particularly hard for kids. In multiple ways. Kids especially may also not know how to explain that they couldn’t talk then, but can now.

Mostly adding that because it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing it on purpose to be a jerk, or that they wouldn’t say something before walking away if they could. Had that misinterpreted too many times myself, especially in already heated situations.