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[quote=Anonymous]Exactly.

1) let the kids work it out, you are a busy body and need to zip it.
2) exactly, if you knew anything about kids, and I am not surprised you said boy, you would know fidgeting with an eraser may help him concentrate on the story being read.
3) again - let it go the kids are not going to break anything.
4) yes, let kids build their own coping skills,

Thank you for skillfully showing how you do not belong as a volunteer with children. I am sure there are envelopes that need to be stuffed or a cafeteria that needs to be cleaned.

[quote=Anonymous]Poster 18:18, terrific response from the real world.

If OP had her way, when I volunteer with a kids' organization of which we're members, [b]I should never tell one kid to be sure to include another. [/b]I should never tell a pair of kids who are inseparable (to the point of focusing entirely on each other much of the time) to sit separately from each other. Goodness knows I should never flat-out tell a kid, "You need to ask X what she thinks."

After all, I'm "just" a volunteer and therefore have zero authority over another person's child.

I could not tell the [b]boy in the reading group at school (which I volunteer to facilitate) that he needs to put away his eraser and stop playing with it.[/b] I could not 
tell one kid to wait to speak because another is speaking right now.

After all, to OP I'm "just" a volunteer and in no position to correct anyone's child about anything, ever.

OP would hate me because if I walk down the halls at my kid's elementary school and I see two kids walking toward me and they are goofing and being loud and pushing each other -- I might actually say, "[b]You guys need to calm it down[/b]." Because I am an adult and they are children, and they are not behaving appropriately. But if OP follows her own reasoning to its logical end, I should say nothing, right? I'm not a teacher and not the parent of one of those kids, so otherwise, I have no authority, correct?

[b]Next time it's HER child being excluded, or pushed on the playground, or interrupted repeatedly in class[/b]...OP will be the first mom to yell loudly and long about how her kid should be included, or not pushed, or allowed to speak. I would love to see her post how much SHE volunteers at school....?

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