The Path to Connecting With "At-Risk" Kids

•      Recast all problems as learning opportunities.

•      Provide fail-safe positive relationships.

•      Increase dosages of nurturance.

•      Do not crowd.

•      Forced success.

•      Learn to decode the meaning of behavior.

•      Be authoritative, not authoritarian.

•      Model Respect to the disrespectful.

•      Notice small things.

•      Keep positive expectations alive.

•      Give seeds time to grow.

        ( Seita & Brendtro )