Same Wavelength

One of my students was very angry so I told her to go to the calm down room. She starts throwing/ripping the few things that are in that room.

I’m outside the door talking to my coworker saying ”she’ll be picking that up later”. The kid says, “I will not be picking that up”! How did she even hear me!?!? (Or we’re on the same wavelength and she just knew I’d be saying that to her….)

So I continue to watch her from outside the room. She says,

“I’m drawing on the floor…” I respond, “Cool you’ll clean that up too”! She looks at me in shock and starts to lick her fingers and try to clean up the crayon she had used on the floor.

She knows the drill and stopped making a mess because in the end, that’s all on her to clean it up! 😉