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October 11, 2007
Play Nice with your Colleagues
I recieved an email from my son's first grade teacher regarding a discussion that the children had about the ways they do and do not like to be treated. Reading it at my desk made me translate everything in my mind to the work environment and I thought it was pretty funny to imagine that these were the "rules" for working with your colleagues in a library.
Ways we like to be treated:
-Play with me
-Listen to me
-Use polite words
-Being respectful
-Helping me clean up
-Helping me if I get hurt
Ways we don’t want to be treated:
-Taking things away from me
-Saying you won’t be my friend
-Calling me names
-Leaving a game before it is over
-Laughing at me
-Excluding me
Ideas for what you can do if someone does something you don’t like:
-Play with other children
-Say stop and tell them what you didn’t like
-Walk away
-Suggest another game
-Tell an adult
Posted by gmayman at October 11, 2007 02:03 PM
Comments
Next time someone does something I don't like, I am TOTALLY telling an adult!
Posted by: hktruong at October 12, 2007 12:20 PM
Thanks for posting, Gillian.
Hung, play nice.
Posted by: janeblum at October 17, 2007 10:48 AM
These directives all make sense to me--for everybody (I use "an adult" metaphorically, since not all chronologically mature people actually act like adults.
Posted by: schnitzr at October 25, 2007 08:07 AM
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