Learning from your Inappropriate Responses

- You will not respond appropriately to every behavior. You will not reinforce every single positive behavior. And guess what, you will keep inadvertently causing increases in negative behavior. It will happen. You're human, and it's okay. It's so easy in this job or as a parent of a child with special needs to hang on to that and to feel guilt and to come home after a hard day and be mad at yourself or feel like you caused it. So, you wanna really view every major behavioral episode as a learning opportunity. So reflect. Think about what could I have done differently? How could I prevent this in the future? And learn from it. If you view it as a learning opportunity, you'll be less clinging to that guilt. And figure out ways to add self care. This is such a hard job, and it's so easy to take on a lot of the emotions that go with this job. So do what you have to do, whether that's work out or spend time with family. Set rules for yourself. Don't check your work email on Saturday and Sundays. Wait till Monday morning, it'll be there. Figure out what you have to do to take care of you first. As the flight attendants say, you have to put on your oxygen mask first before you can put on others. So, you are no help to your students or your children, if you're not taking care of yourself first. (upbeat music)