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On the home page of our web site, www.ChildCareExchange.com, you can read the article, “Including Children With Challenging Behavior in Your Child Care Community,” by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky. In another article from the July 2005 issue of Exchange, “The Impact of Sensory Integration on Behavior: Discovering our Best Selves.” Nancy Rosenow offers more ideas on helping guide children’s behavior. She shared a story from one her classrooms which illustrated the power of visual images…

“For years teachers had noted that play in the Block Area often mimicked violent episodes from television or movies, and frequently ended up with children hurting each other or feeling upset. We began to realize that giving children alternative visual images to the violent ones they carried around in their heads might inspire their block work to change dramatically. So we filled our Block Areas with colorful photos of beautiful buildings from around the world. We added replica buildings of great works of architecture.

“We stocked up on non-fiction books about bridges, towers, castles, and lighthouses. Almost immediately children’s play began to change from violent scenarios of superheroes fighting each other to attempts to recreate some of the beauty and power children noticed in the visual images we had chosen. The day a group of determined builders worked intensely and cooperatively to create “The Great Wall of China” together, we all rejoiced.

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