Have you seen a moment like Riya, Aman, and Kabir’s in your classroom? by UNESCO MGIEP

2025-09-18 05:30:23 UTC

Children first need help recognizing how their behavior affects others. Using simple language like “pushes” (hurtful actions), “pulls” (kind actions), and “fixes” (ways to make things right) can make this concept more accessible.

Learning to Apologize Meaningfully

A strong apology goes beyond just saying “sorry.” It involves:

• Naming the behavior: “I’m sorry for grabbing your toy.”

• Acknowledging the impact: “I think that made you feel sad.”

• Offering a fix: “Can I help you rebuild it?”

• Checking in: “Does that help you feel better?”

Using Creative Fixes

Children can repair relati

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To handle a challenging situation with a child—whether it's disruptive behavior, emotional distress, or conflict with peers—it's important to respond with both empathy and structure. Here's a step-by-step approach that works well in an ECCE setting:

1. Stay Calm and Observant

Your calm presence sets the tone. Take a moment to observe the child’s behavior without reacting immediately. This helps you respond thoughtfully rather than emotionally.

2. Connect Before Correcting

Approach the child gently and at their level. Use a soft voice and open body language. Say something like, “I see you’re upset. Can you tell me what happened?” This builds trust and opens the door to understanding.

3. Understand the Root Cause

Is the child tired, hungry, overwhelmed, or seeking attention? Identifying the underlying need helps you respond effectively rather than just managing the surface behavior.

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Acknowledging feelings: Each child expresses how they felt during the incident.

• Apologies and forgiveness: The child who made the mistake says sorry, and the other child practices forgiveness.

• Collaborative problem-solving: Rebuilding the tower or creating a new game together.

• Teacher guidance: The teacher models empathy, helps children communicate kindly, and praises cooperative behavior.

• Positive reinforcement: Recognizing efforts to share, listen, and support each other.

2025-09-18 06:54:44 UTC

The teacher gently gathered all three children, asked each to share what happened, and encouraged them to listen to each other. She guided them to understand feelings, empathize, and solve the problem together, such as rebuilding the tower, helping them reconnect and practice cooperation

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Children’s Feelings:

1. Child whose tower was knocked over:

• Likely feels angry, frustrated, and sad, as their work was destroyed.

2. Child who knocked over the tower:

• Likely feels scared, guilty, or anxious, realizing it was a mistake.

3. Child who is standing quietly:

• Likely feels confused or uncertain, not knowing how to respond or help.

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Open communication, empathy, apologies, teamwork, and adult support help children reconnect and strengthen friendships after conflicts.

2025-09-18 11:24:35 UTC

proper communication helped repair the situation

2025-09-18 11:25:10 UTC

situation was handled with maturity calmness and peacefully

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by talking to all of them separate.

2025-09-22 08:43:03 UTC

Yes. By having proper communication system, the issue was solved

2025-09-22 14:20:48 UTC

Yes very often

2025-10-03 07:06:58 UTC

Yes I have seen such situations. A little support from the counsellor and mother teachers helped students to handle it better

2025-10-03 18:06:16 UTC

Proper communication and listening to their friend's point of view helped them to react and express their feelings better in order to solve the situation.

2025-10-04 06:57:54 UTC

communication and counselling

2025-10-04 06:58:31 UTC

Teacher's role is important as she clear the things

2025-10-04 09:22:37 UTC

counselling and communication handled the situation calmly.

2025-10-04 09:53:04 UTC

Counselling and communication handle the situation calmly..... yes by having proper communication system the issue was solved...

2025-10-04 16:10:42 UTC

Yes. By having proper communication system, the issue was solved

2025-10-06 10:34:26 UTC

Proper advice and guidance from the teacher helped to sort the problem and communication with their peers helped them .

2025-10-06 15:12:04 UTC

Properly communicate with students

2025-10-06 15:19:48 UTC

by counselling and talking with them solved the issue

2025-10-06 15:20:25 UTC

through communication

2025-10-07 02:49:44 UTC

communication and counselling

2025-10-07 02:50:35 UTC

Through discussion and excepting others perspective.

2025-10-07 05:04:02 UTC

The first thing is to always listen to them and then help them express their feelings and calm them down. Later, communicate with them to fix things together.

2025-10-07 10:34:14 UTC

Teacher support

2025-10-07 12:54:51 UTC

The teacher stayed calm,listened attentively to each child's perspective ,acknowledging their emotions and helping them feel heard and understood. This act of teacher helped resolve the issue and helped repair their relationship.

2025-10-08 12:20:45 UTC

Counselling and communication

2025-10-08 14:27:46 UTC

Through counselling, listening, and communication.

2025-10-08 14:33:31 UTC

Ms. Rina’s calmness, gentle guidance and acceptance of the emotions felt by the children, helped them navigate through the situation. She helped them empathize and understand each other.

2025-10-08 15:25:02 UTC

Through listening to others perspective also.

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by counselling and talking with them solved the issue

2025-10-09 16:57:08 UTC

Children navigate friendships, misunderstandings, and conflicts as part of learning how to interact with others.
Sometimes, a disagreement or exclusion happens, like Aman feeling left out, or Kabir being misunderstood.
Riya might be caught in the middle, trying to help or figure out what’s going on.

2025-10-10 08:33:45 UTC

by counselling and taking with them solved the issue.

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through communication

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by guiding them to listen and understand each others' feelings and emotions.

2025-10-10 16:35:00 UTC

by giving them chance to share their emotions freely without being judged.

2025-10-12 13:22:08 UTC

Yes, I’ve seen similar moments in my classroom. Children repaired their relationship by expressing feelings, offering apologies, and working together to redo the activity, which helped rebuild trust and cooperation.

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2025-10-12 13:23:24 UTC

Yes, I’ve seen similar moments in my classroom. The situation was handled by acknowledging the children’s feelings, guiding the child who caused the accident to apologize, and encouraging all of them to work together to rebuild the project, which helped restore cooperation and understanding.

2025-10-15 12:11:56 UTC

This happened in the class ,children had improved their relation by communicating with each other and apologizing with others.

2025-10-18 15:19:47 UTC

One day in my class a child was standing behind the door. Another student who was coming from outside was unaware of this and he pushed the door to enter inside.The another child fell down and got hurt.

The student who was outside was feeling scared . He came inside and said sorry to him and said that it was by mistake.He helped him to stand and took him to his seat. The another child was crying. He gave him water to drink and took care of him. The another one was feeling relaxed and happy.

2025-10-18 15:25:05 UTC

One day in my class, one child was standing behind the door.Another child was coming inside and was unaware of the fact that someone was behind it. He pushed the door and the another one got hurt and started crying. He felt scared and the one who got hurt felt sad. But the one who was at guilty said sorry and accepted the mistake that as he was unaware , so he got hurt He gave him water and took care . He helped him to stand and sit on his seat.

The issue was sorted as he showed empathy and showed his responsible behaviour.

2025-10-18 15:26:23 UTC

The interaction between each other and listening to each other helped children to resolve the issue.

2025-10-23 17:34:40 UTC

Children were able to interacting with their friends and complete their task together.

2025-11-03 12:41:06 UTC

The children were not able to resolve their differences on their own, the adult intervention as done by the teacher was helpful in repairing their relationship as they were able to understand each other better.

2025-11-03 12:43:16 UTC

With the help of the teacher, they were able to resolve their conflict by understanding each other.

2025-11-04 14:58:26 UTC

Many a times i encountered such situations. Children like to complain about each other. He has taken my eraser, She is not giving my doll......But resolving these issues and make them understand is something I enjoy.

2025-11-05 05:35:02 UTC

I helped children repair their relationship.

2025-11-05 05:36:26 UTC

Two children had a disagreement while playing. I calmly separated them, listened to each child’s side, and helped them express their feelings.

2025-11-05 13:34:03 UTC

Listening to each other's perspective might help them and teacher has to make sure that nobody is left out and it should be an open ended discussion among the students so that they can resolve and repair their relationship.

2025-11-08 05:31:48 UTC

Yes such moments always occur in my class, i generally listen to each one of them and try to resolve the matter and at the end ask them to shake hands and hug each other.

2025-11-11 15:57:16 UTC

The teacher intervention in a positive manner.

2025-11-11 15:58:42 UTC

By giving listening ears to all and giving them choice of their action and reactions explaining the outcomes.

2025-11-14 06:18:02 UTC

Yes, I have experienced such situations many times. I try to talk with all the students together and solve the situation

2025-11-29 17:35:45 UTC

communication

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Guidance given by teacher about what is a right way.

2025-11-30 15:02:45 UTC

These kind of situations do occur in the class. I listen to them and try to resolve the issue by making both of them understand that none of them did it deliberately.

2026-02-24 16:16:06 UTC

Interconnection amongst them coming close and discuss and solve this is how they solved the problem.

2026-02-24 16:17:19 UTC

Initially children are not willing to participation to solve the problem but mutually they agree and solve it.

2026-03-05 14:18:50 UTC

Yes, I’ve seen similar moments in my classroom. For example, when a new student joined, others like Riya, Aman, and Kabir welcomed them, shared resources, and offered help, showing empathy, kindness, and teamwork. These small actions create a supportive and inclusive classroom environment.

2026-03-16 08:15:32 UTC

Yes, I have observed similar moments in my classroom where children had disagreements during play or group activities. For example, there was a situation where two children argued over sharing materials during an activity, and one of them felt upset and left out. With guidance and a calm conversation, the children were encouraged to express how they felt and listen to each other.

By helping them understand each other’s feelings and reminding them about sharing and cooperation, they were able to resolve the issue and continue playing together. Such moments are valuable opportunities to support children in developing empathy, communication, and problem-solving skills.

2026-03-18 03:45:48 UTC

It happens in the classes normally, where children need guidance and emotional support to create a safe and productive environment. Like when children want to sit at same seat, then they sometimes become impatient. At that time, the teacher's intervention and effective communication lead to security, peer interaction and collaboration, social skills development. Repairing relationships with children involves revisiting moments of disconnection by taking responsibility, naming what happened, and offering sincere, non-forced apologies. Key strategies include fostering open communication, spending quality one-on-one time, using restorative practices to fix damage, and modelling emotional honesty.

2026-03-29 13:44:40 UTC

Yes, many a times. especially during lunch and play time.

2026-03-29 13:44:58 UTC

By lending an ear and being non judgemental.

2026-04-01 18:38:09 UTC

Several time similar misunderstanding take place amongst students, sometimes it sorted out by them after discussion. Some time teacher need to help them for this purpose.

2026-04-08 10:06:27 UTC

I have seen students fighting in the classroom and stopped When teacher asked them to listen to the class

2026-04-18 10:47:05 UTC

the teacher brining them together to make a connection helped children to repair connection

2026-04-18 10:48:00 UTC

the situation was handled very calm and compossed showing patience.

2026-04-28 21:34:36 UTC

Asking the person whose blocks were knocked over if they have ever accidentally knocked over blocks!

2026-04-28 21:35:08 UTC

Once they realized they had also accidentally knocked over blocks, they understood how their friend was feeling.

2026-04-30 05:07:29 UTC

Yes I have come across this situation several times where I get them together and we all reconstruct the blocks together in that reconstruction I talk with all the children importance of team work and not to break or bother one another rather try to help and assist each other always.

2026-04-30 05:09:35 UTC

Starting a interaction of conversation to understand the situation and try to resolve first by talk and apologies.

2026-05-03 11:10:26 UTC

Yes, I have come across such situations in class. Conversation guidance and patience helps to deal with the situation.

2026-05-08 16:55:06 UTC

Patiently listening to them instead of being judgemental. Talking to them first to understand their point of view and then resolving the situation

2026-05-19 12:56:03 UTC

Listening to both the sides without being judgemental is the first thing i would do. After letting them vent out what they have to say, I would try patching up between the two by a handshake!