Does anyone have any insight on discipline and consequences with a ten year old whose behaviour has been problematic at school?
He sees a counsellor, partly because of self image and self esteem issues, and we've been told to use lots of positive reinforcement and to walk away or ignore shouting at us and anger when we ask him to do something simple. She has said this because she said he needs us to be calm and not spend all our time telling him off.
However he's now gotten into trouble at school for being disruptive and disrespectful in class continually. I'm not sure how to handle this with him without getting more shouting or anger from him. Any advice?
I don't want to give away too much info about his entire background as it may be outing, but we're trying really hard to reinforce that he's a good boy and well liked. Balancing that with consequences at the moment is really hard as he takes so much to heart emotionally and gets down on himself.