A couple of years ago, there was a programme on BBC prime,
"Little Angels", on how to deal with 3-5-year-olds and their tantrums, how to overcome common child behavioural problems, etc, and i recorded 4 episodes thinking it could help me with �tough � kids in a private school i used to teach in. And it did.
Then, another series started called
"Teen Angels" where they outline
positive routes to overcome issues and transform your relationship with a teenager (unfortunately, i got only 4 episodes recorded).
The episodes are basically done like this:
- a family with a problematic child (teen) is being filmed throughout a month �s period (or so), as if in a Big Bro show.
- the footages are sent to the two pshychologists who are working on the series to analyse them.
- the pshychologists come to the family (with the crew) and play representative and pinpointing clips to the family, which are supposed to open the parents � and the children �s eyes to the issues that have to be tackled and solved.
- the parents follow the guidelines given by the psycologists as to how to deal with those problems in a different, more positive way and things do begin to change. of course, it does not happen over night, though it may seem that way because it �s all squeezed within a 60 min episode.
- at the end of each episode (which is about 3 months or so later) things are much calmer in the family who are finally understanding of each other.
Now, being thrilled with the series, i did a translation of one of the episodes and showed it to the school psychologist who was thrilled herself. I thought,
�Why don �t we present it to the parents and the school stuff? Why not create a workshop and make these adults see things more clearly? � She thought it was a great idea. We prepared a Qnaire that would introduce the people to the subject and that would make them
think first about their relationship with their own children/students and then (maybe) draw an analogy by watching the video.
It was a huge success and we had a loooong discussion afterwards, especially with the parents. I heard from the SS afterwards that their parents bothered them with Qs, lol, that they wanted to spend more time with them, etc. They said, "Teacher, what have you done to our parents?!?" I was glad that we got through to them. At least for a while. What the parents said was that we should have such meetings a lot more often.
Now, to finally come to the point.
I have uploaded one of the episodes (not the one i did with my colleagues, but i will put that one up too). I shrunk it as much as i could. It might take a while for you to download it but it �s worth while. You can translate it into your own language and do a workshop in your school as well, even if there are no problematic children in your classes. It �s always nice to get together with the parents and the students ...
Ok, i �ll stop here and now. If you have any Qs about the series or the ws that we did, i will be more than glad to answer them.
from Ivy Idealistaly
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cf34d43787b36952e7c82ed4b8f0c380bbcdd1f4f1c2948b5621d66e282a0ee8EDIT:
To those who have downloaded the file, it seems that i didn�t upload N2, so i�ll do it right away and you can take that one too in a little while.
- good advice is always useful to those (of us) who want to hear it(we had the same type of show Superdadilja in Croatia, and some parents commented it gave them great ideas, insights and concrete advice
, whereas some said it was complete rubbish from people who have no idea what real family life is and that it was all staged - I don �t have to describe you their kids � behaviour
)... I �m so glad you got a great response from the parents and kids, because I know how much energy and passion one puts in such projects, and how much it matters to have people �s reactions and effect...
