There are SO many examples I could give. A child getting dysregulated being made to “act right” to earn their tablet, when that tablet would help them not be dysregulated. Being forced or bribed to brush teeth when the reason they won’t is because it hurts them. Loosing recess for bad behavior when the “bad behavior” was literally from a lack of regulating physical activity. There are real needs underlying our children’s emotions and behaviors, and when I started seeing all behaviors as communic