This Month in Counseling

            

 

Counselor’s Corner

 

 

"The Life of patience and self control helps to clear the mind, strengthen judgment, and elevate one's character."  By Benjamin Jewell

 

 

Greeting Fulbright Parents and Friends

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Steve Walls (parent) who spoke at our Hall of Fame assembly for the month of January. Our next Hall of Fame recognition assembly will be on February 23, 2012 at 1:30.

 

A special message for the fifth graders and their parents! Fifth grade students will participate in a "Job Shadowing" activity for the entire day of February 22, 2012. Students brought home their Job Shadowing packet during the week of February 3, 2012. The packet included a parent consent form and a student assignment form for this lesson. Please make sure that your child has given you these documents so that they can be a part of this very valuable lesson. All forms must be returned to the guidance office by February 15, 2012. This lesson is an out of school project. We will not be assigning students to Fulbright staff to shadow.

 

The character development lesson for this month is "Self Discipline." This character lesson will cover the topics of: Discipline (doing what you should be doing even when it's not what you want to do), Self Control (Impulse Control), Self Reliance, and Good Judgment. The younger students will have some difficulty with self-control. One of the typical behaviors of K-@ students is to be impulsive and act before thinking. A fun and valuable way to teach self-control in children is to make a game out of it and talk to them about it while playing. Foe our older students, experiencing the consequences of completing the task and doing the right thing can be quite rewarding.

 

As children demonstrate good discipline in their decisions, we will be able to relate this to their being able to count on themselves, do the right thing and not look to another individual to tell them what to do. This is where self-reliance and good judgment come into play. Give your child an opportunity to make decisions about what they wear, where they go (e.g. as a family unit or when setting up a play date), or how they spend some of their birthday money. When our children make mistakes discuss these character trait lessons with them. Remember! They have no way to learn it if we never give them the chance to try their wings and learn from their mistakes.

 

 Respectfully submitted,