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How to Teach Self Control to Kindergarten

Children and adults need to exercise self-control to have discipline. By the time children reach kindergarten, they have been exposed to various forms of self-control. This needs to be reinforced in a formal classroom setting. Helping younger children learn how to avoid impulse actions can help increase their ability to practice self-control -- even in situations where a child finds being limited hard to handle.

Things You'll Need

  • Notebook
  • Note cards (enough for three per student, all with the word "No" written on the front)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Gather students and discuss what the term self-control means. Use a definition that is easy to understand for kindergartners such as "Self-control means that you sometime have to make yourself stop doing something or knowing when you have had enough of something."

    • 2

      Explain to the class that you will be using a three strikes and you are out rule to learn self-control in the classroom. Show the students the stack of note cards. Explain that every time a student has to be told "No" due to a lack of self-control, the student will be given a card. Once three cards are received, all for not exercising self-control, one privilege is suspended. For example, if you have to tell a student three times not to get out of their seat during work time, they receive three cards and skip the next recess.

    • 3

      Use daily occurrences to further reiterate self-control. For example, every time a child goes to do something such as hoard all the blue crayons, explain to the child that using self-control means you can use one blue crayon at a time and allow the other children to use the rest. Keep stressing the importance of self-control as a way to be fair to others; and use the concept of treat others as you would like to be treated.

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