Ditto. You can't hurt anything or anyone including yourself. I tell the children it's never ok for anyone to hurt you in anyway, that includes me, your friends at school, parents and so on.

I would do as BC said and separate.

My rule if you hit you sit.

Do you have a calm down corner? Do you have supplies to go with it?

Often when I see behavior about to escalate in a negative way I jump in being proactive and direct the children to the calm down corner. We say, "let's take a break". There is a basket of choices of things to help them calm down. They can play with them while sitting down to calm. Alone. I do talk with them about how they are feeling and we go from there. I help them label how they feel and help them come up with ways to release the emotion. Like I'm feeling angry. I will tell them it's ok to feel angry. Let's take a break be calm down, then we can go use our words with our friends.

But just setting them and not talking about it, doesn't resolve the problem.

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