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18                                   Kids exhibiting challenging behavior are often black-and-white thinkers living in a gray world..." "They are more prone to make black-and-white statements such as "I'm stupid" or "Nobody Likes me" or "Things will never work out for me" pg 22 & 23

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18                                   Kids exhibiting challenging behavior are often black-and-white thinkers living in a gray world..." "They are more prone to make black-and-white statements such as "I'm stupid" or "Nobody Likes me" or "Things will never work out for me" pg 22 & 23

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"This [community building] is hard for teachers who have adopted the mentality "I don't adjust my style of teaching to my students, my students adjust to my excellent styles of teaching" pg. 190

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"I think a lot of adults who think they're talking with a kid are really talking at the kid. Plan B helps you with talking with a kid" pg 183

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"The automatic inclination to use medication to treat kids who have difficulty regulating their emotions. " pg

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"Kids do well if they can" pg 10

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"...the vast majority of challenging kids already know how we want them to behave" pg 7

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"You see, while there is some chance that a kid won't be able to think of any solutions, there's actually an excellent probability the kid can think of good solutions--ones that will take your combined concerns into account--and has been waiting (often not so patiently) for you to give him the chance." pg. 93

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Because every kid in a classroom has different needs, treating them all exactly the same would mean no one's needs are being met. pg. 19

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"One reason psychotrophic medications are overprescribed is that not enough people are familiar with the cognitive factors that can set the stage for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, and sometimes it's just easier to give a kid a pill than to figure out what's truly getting in his way." pg. 21

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"There's a spectrum of things kids do when life's demands exceed their capacity to respond adaptively" pg. 12

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"These kids clearly need something else from us. They need adults who know that lagging skills give rise to challenging behavior and that such behavior occurs under specific conditions." pg. 40

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"One of the most detrimental side effects of challenging behavior is how it causes classmates to view and treat a kid." pg. 187

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"The work is hard, messy, uncomfortable, and it requires teamwork, patience, and enacity, especially as the work also involves questioning convenional wisdom and practice." pg. xiii

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In too many classrooms, the group wins out and individual challenging kids get lost. The thinking goes, "This kid is disrupting my class and interfering with the learning of the other kids." pg. 190

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Challenging behavior is most likely to occur "when the demands being placed on a kid exceed his capacity to respond adaptively" pg.12

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"And whille this may be hard to believe, most challenging kids already want to behave the right way. They don't need us to continue giving them stickers, depriving them of recess, or suspending them from school; they're aleady motivated. They need something else from us." pg 7

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"Learning how to put your emotions "on the shelf" so as to be able to think rationally is an essential developmental skill, and one many challenging kids have failed to develop." page 20