
Help for Billy
A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom
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Heather T. Forbes LCSW
Help for Billy is a pragmatic manual to help guide families and educators who are struggling with traumatized children. Based on the concept of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Heather Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for teachers and parents.
This easy to listen audiobook, clears the way for a better understanding of the true nature regarding traumatic experiences affecting the brain and learning. It is a must listen for anyone working with a child in the classroom.
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Great book for professional development
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excellent read for teachers and parents
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Way To Go Billy
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Great informational read
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Full of Information
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A must read!
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Don’t recommend as audio book...
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Much of the book is making sweeping statements that aren't backed by a statistic, percentage, or helpful research. Instead it zooms into the realm of always, never, every, all, etc when it should be measured, conditioned, and qualified. Like where it says, "Because to Billy, any change equals disaster" and "Billy can't distinguish between good transitions and bad and so all are bad." Surely not ANY change or transition. What type of trauma? What type of changes? What percentage of students? What type of conditions?
In this unqualified unspecified manner, educators can easily pass up a measured response, and become the proverbial helicopter parents that are on way too high alert.
The biggest danger I see in this over compensation is that, packaged as helping and loving Billy, there is a Trojan horse that leads to enabling these students to traumatize and bully other students. Experiencing trauma shouldn't excuse Billy becoming a bully.
The book also seems to glorify teachers bearing the brunt of these students' anger and frustration. While love and compassion should be the first tools in a teachers toolbox, it should not come at the expense of what are acceptable behavior expectations, or a teacher's ability to enforce said rules. These rules are for EVERYONE'S benefit, and for the safety of staff and students in every situation. A teacher does no one a favor by being a punching bag. We need to be examples for students. I don't think students need to take abuse. Neither should teachers. No abuse should be given or taken by any party ever.
At one point, she says it's all about the students. I disagree. I think every single person at school should be valued. Students should be taught to value every person in the building.
Students expect us to protect them, and in the data I have collected, which shows it is their number one concern in the classroom and school, for it to be quiet, respectful, civil, and not chaotic, I consider their number one request as a mandate. I enforce rules to keep kids safe.
This book seems to allow Billy to traumatize and bully others. That doesn't help Billy or anyone else. Yes to love, yes to compassion, but also yes to enforcing rules meant for the safety and well being of everyone. Billy especially needs this kind of structure if it doesn't exist elsewhere.
There are good things that can be gleaned from this book I suppose, but read with caution.
A good educator should have as many tools in their toolbox that fit into a loving and ethical system. We should not be trying to go "beyond consequences". There's no such thing. Everything in the world carries consequences. It's important to show students these important life facts.
As far as reaching Billies, I would say yes to spending more time, effort, energy, care, money, resources, etc on students who have experienced trauma and need help. We should teach them meta cognitive skills, have classes that actually spend time on social emotional learning, rather than being an after thought and pushed aside for the "important" curriculum. We should give them our wrapped attention.
But none of that should not at all be at the expense of the safety and well being of and students or staff.
Heavy on superlatives, light on data
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Mixed emotions after reading this book
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