Brain-Storming: Appropriate Parenting In School

After acknowledging to my co-worker that I did hear the conversation with the parent and that by us “brain-storming” we will be able to come up with appropriate responses for his child and the child’s biting.

An appropriate response to the child’s biting would be to see if we have observed any of this behavior in class with this child or any other children since we do keep observation data on hand and document any different behaviors that occur we will have concrete evidence of any biting with this child. If there is evidence of biting in the classroom we can come up with an appropriate way to handle the situation, possibly a 2-minute time-out away from peers, simply because 30 minutes is way too long for a child this age to understand

what and why they are being taken away from others.
Secondly, when speaking with the parent do use active listening in which “objectively listening in a nondefensive way, for the deeper message of the sender and then giving reiterating feedback.” (Swim, 2017, p.152) in which case, my coworker is able to look at the body language, facial expressions and movement of the sender's body. By actively listening we are able to get the entire picture of what may be going on at home versus the classroom, in which case the brother may or may not be doing something to aggravate the other child or the child is trying to get attention in another manner, which in either scenario there needs to be a resolution in stopping the biting at home, especially if it is not happening in school.
Lastly, by my colleague setting up a conference with the parent as soon as possible with the findings we have here at school and discussing what is happening at home, we can all “Work together with family members to create goals that are acceptable to both”(Swim, 2017, p.157) the home life and school life, after all, we are in this together and want a happy, healthy and learning child.