Conscious Discipline Book Study

I am still needing lots of practice when offering two choices to students. I have no major problems with students following directions. They usually respond well to following directions. The only student who sometimes refuse to do something is Omar. He has social emotional problems. When I give him two choices that focus on what I want him to do, and it is hard for Omar to stop what he is doing, I just use the Parroting technique, which always has seem to work in relation to Omar. After Omar did what he chose, then I celebrate with him by saying: "Omar, You chose to pick up the animals instead of the blocks, that was helpful!"

The video that I watched was "Wiring the Brain for Success" by Dr. Becky Bailey.
Dr Bailey said that children have three states or systems in our body (survival, emotional and executive).
She said that children will need to develop our frontal lobes so we can set goals, achieve them, resolve conflicts, develop empathy and see things from different perspectives. According to Dr. Bailey we can do this by providing connections to children. Children need connections with their school, their teachers and their parents or caregivers because this will create the path for self-control. When we have the "knowing" (executive) and the "doing"(survival, emotional) closer together our life works much better. This is possible by having the connections especially in the early years of life (1-3 years old). Children and us need to have self-regulation so when we are in the survival state we can own our own upset. We need to recognize when we are getting upset and who is making us upset. If a child is making us upset  and we become really upset then the child is controlling our upset. We will need to wire our brain so when we are upset, or trigger in a low state, we can use our capacity to move out of that state, back to the zone  and solve the problem straightening our frontal lobes to achieve our goals despite the obstacles in life.