help!
so for context, i just got my AMI diploma in april, and have started working in a school. the school, despite telling me i would not be the lead adult in the classroom, made me one - and fast forward to friday, in the overwhelm of a kid not choosing work and disrupting everyone else who was working, i said, “i won’t send you home until you finish your work.”
i rightfully had my ass handed back to me, even through the yelling and screaming by the founder. but i’d like to know what phrases work better to help a child redirect to work or things they like within the environment? i work as a guide in the 3-6 classroom, and this kid is 5 and a half, ready for elementary.
i obviously feel very shitty about saying it, and i’ve never been a fan of using that phrase at all - when i used to intern before i got my diploma, at the previous workplace, the adult i worked under would use it often, and i thought it would work here. clearly it’s a shitty phrase from the get-go. i thought of an alternative of “your parents are waiting for you outside, it’s going to take a long time to finish if you sit with the material like this” but that, too, i think instills some fear in the child.