Brain Research
Powers for Self-Control
Discipline Skills
School Family
Conscious Discipline Grab Bag
100

This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety.

What is the brain stem?
100

What you offer to other, you ___________________.

What is "strengthen within yourself?"

100

Developing this skill will help you to manage your own upset when your buttons are pushed.

What is composure?
100

This Conscious Discipline (R) structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm.

What is the Safe Place?

100

This makes you focus on what you don't want.

What is fear?

200

Connection between adults and children literally wires the brain for this.

What is impulse control?

200

Whomever you have placed in charge of your feelings, you have ______________________.

What is "placed in charge of you" or "given your power away to?"

200

Teaching children to use their BIG voice involves teaching them this skill.

What is assertiveness?

200

This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts.

What is the Kindness Recorder?

200

The Qtip method stands for this.

What is "Quit taking it personally?"

300

This part of the brain acts as the CEO and allows us to access our executive skills.

What are the pre-frontal lobes?

300

We attribute this when we choose to "see the best" in others.

What is positive intent?

300

You may have to make it up, but attributing ____________ to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.

What is positive intent?

300

This is the teacher's primary job in Conscious Discipline.

What is "keep it safe" or "the Safekeeper?"

300

This is the age at which the prefrontal lobes mature.

What is 24?

400

These neurons allow us to download our internal states into one another.

What are mirror neurons?

400

Controlling others is impossible.  I can only control this.

What is myself?

400

This is the most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect.

What are natural consequences?

400

These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.

What is eye contact, touch, presence, and a playful situation?

400

What are the breathing choices on the Safe Place Mat?

What are STAR, Balloon, Pretzel, and Drain?

500

These are the five executive skills.

What are empathy, organization and time management, impulse control, working memory, and prioritization?

500

You must focus on this to change any behavior

What is "what you want" (instead of what you don't want)?

500

These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child's emotional state.

What are choices and empathy?

500

The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.

What is intrinsic motivation?

500

These are the three questions the brain asks.

What are "Am I safe?", "Am I loved?", and "What can I learn from this?"