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Honestly, it seems like they're just pacifying the aggressive child. "If the other child is upset" of "If the child seems" when refering to the child who gets their toy taken away. I understand there some children who will just take a toy and never let anyone ever play with it, but from what I've experienced children who snatch toys know who they can and can't do it with. Like the little girl who left, she most picked on my longterm girl who was shy. I had another girl who was extremely loud and would have hit her. She approached her one time and the girl got in her face and said "NO!' and scared the c rap out of new girl. I think after certain point it is bullying and just sort of keeping the aggressive child from doing worse things. Which I get, but we have to make sure the shy/meek kids are happy/confident, too.
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RIE is all about respecting young children and the philosophy places a heavy emphasis on letting kids figure things out with minimal adult intervention. I like the philosophy, but the problem (when it comes to peer conflict) is that toddlers generally can't figure out what adults mean when they say "that bothered you when so and so took the toy." It's an indirect statement that doesn't provide any modeling. It also probably doesn't make the child whose toy was taken feel better because the sentence is too wordy for a toddler to understand.
I love the principle behind the RIE philosophy; however, in practice, young children benefit from using more than one strategy to help them be successful.Comment
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