I can keep twenty-five kids on task most days now, and I'm proud of that. But when one truly falls apart, screaming, throwing things, the whole thing I've built wobbles and I feel it start to slip. On the hard days I drive home wondering if I actually have any control at all.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can run an orderly classroom, but a truly dysregulated child still undoes you.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.