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Getting Along with Others
Getting Along Unit
The violence prevention and conflict resolution unit focuses on managing feelings or anger and communicating feelings rather than using physical means.
There are no simple explanations for the violence and aggression that has become common in our society. In young children, it is clear that they learn what they see and experience. While this includes television, movies, and other media, they are not the whole story. Most studies suggest that televised violence do not necessarily cause children to become violent, but sensitize them to violence, so that they come to accept certain behaviors as appropriate and commonplace. Some studies have shown that young children become more aggressive and active immediately after viewing a violent show, but again, that is not the entire picture of violence in our society. Some suggest that television and movies are a reflection of, rather than the cause of, societal phenomena. Neretheless, televised violence desensitizes. In addition, children who live in communities where violence is commonplace and who experience violence in their homes witness and come to accept this physical means of problem solving as appropriate. Thus, the activities in this unit assist children in identifying feelings of anger and appropriate ways to manage those feelings. They allow children to practice communicating their feelings with words, rather than with physical aggression, and to channel angry feelings appropriately when words do not work or are not possible.
Goals and Objectives
Children will be able to recognize that they can cope with angry feelings in ways that do not hurt other people or things.
Children will be able to recognize angry feeling and situations that make them feel angry.
Children will be able to identify appropriate ways of responding to a situation or person who makes them feel angry.
Children will practice responding to situations that make them feel angry.
Children will recognize that it is never okay for someone to hurt them in anger and appropriate ways to respond when they are being hurt by someone else.
Points to emphasize:
This is a chapter in the Healthy Start, Health Education Program for Preschoolers Sample Activities From the Chapter:
Children and adults can feel angry when someone does not let them do something that they want to do.
Children and adults can feel angry when they think that someone has misunderstood them.
Children and adults can feel angry when someone or something hurts their bodies or their feelings.
When a child or an adult feels angry they can talk about it to the person who is making them angry.
When a child or an adult feels angry they can talk to another grownup who they trust about their feelings.
Children and adults who feel angry should not use their hands, feet, or any other thing to hurt someone else.
Children can use breathing deeply and time outs to calm their bodies and clear their brains when they are feeling very angry.
It is never okay for an adult to hurt a child, even if the adult feels angry.
If an adult hurts a child, the child should always tell another grownup that they trust about it.
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