Update on Two Strikes to control blurting. The moving of the kid to the wall to observe on the first blurt was too punitive and embarrassing. Two upset kids made me modify that. Now, on the first blurt, I pull out a yellow card like in soccer and lay it in front of the kid. Then second blurt gets an orange card on top of the yellow card. I play this on the kids just like a soccer referee. Third card, the kid goes out to Linda’s or Zach’s room. But I never even get to an orange card. The kids get it. I needed a way to stop blurting and I found it. The moving of the kid to the wall was just too embarrassing, but with the cards, which I lay in front of the kid, nobody has to be excluded from the group – they still sit in the same place. And they all know that will be ejected on the third blurt so that just doesn’t happen. Typical results are that now I might get two yellow cards per day and that’s it.
