Mean Jean
Mean Jean’s Plans | Strategies to DEFEAT Mean Jean | |
1. | May get you to say mean or hurtful things to others. | Self-talk: "Will this hurt my friend’s feelings?" Keep bragging, bossy, or hurtful thoughts in our brains. “If I have a thought, I wait my turn to share it” Wait my turn “If someone asks for my help, I will try my best to help.” Ask if my friend needs my help..don't just do it! “If someone hurts me, I have the right to walk away and tell an adult” It is my responsibility to keep a peaceful classroom and school! |
2. | May get you to insult someone or name call. | |
3. | May get you to grab or take things from others. | |
4. | May get you to get easily upset about tiny problems (i.e., someone is trying to talk at the same time and you insist that you were talking first and he must stop talking). | |
5. | May get you to quickly have a big reaction to a tiny problem and YELL at others. | |
6. | May get you to insist that things go your way and others do what you want to do ALL THE TIME | |
Mean Jean is one of Superflex’s trickiest nemeses. She can often disguise herself quite well, but not well enough for our Social Learners!. Our Social Learnig Bunches are exploring some great strategies to use against Mean Jean. Take a look. You might even be able to come up with a few strategies that can be useful at home or in the classroom, too!
These behaviors were very hard for some of our students to identify and place in the appropriate column of the T-Chart. Some students were puzzles on why their behavior was in fact a “Mean Jean Behavior” and not a “Good Friend Behavior”.
IMPORTANT TIP: Some students are slower SOCIAL learners and require extra time to think, work, and complete assignments and others are impulsive and have trouble controlling their actions. We must teach and reinforce for our social learners that If we try to help without asking first, then we might be causing more “HARM” than “HELP”.
Our Social Learners were then able to come up with their own Mean Jean behaviors and Good Friend Behaviors. This is what they shared from their perspectives:
Tattle telling vs. Figure it out with respect and friendship.
Let it go.
Figure it out by yourself.
Steal vs. Put in lost and found or return
Touch people vs. Keep hands to self.
Once students were able to understand these behaviors, they were able come up with ways to AVOID them or DEFEAT MEAN JEAN. It is important to try really hard to avoid these behaviors rather than problem solve and fix other people’s feelings after all has been said and done.
Students were able to come with these ways to DEFEAT MEAN JEAN:
Be Focused
Think positive
Respect each other, be respectful to friends
Think about giving other people blue thoughts/good thoughts
Do things that feel right
Keep it (interrupting words) to yourself
Think before you act
Calm down
Say nice words
Follow directions, the first time given
THINK FIRST AND ALWAYS
Think about the things you’ve learned in breakfast bunch J
Be a flexible thinker
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