5. Misbehavior

There have been many incidents of misbehaving students during the past few sessions at Beyond Self. One of our students had even threatened to hit one of the mentors due to poor anger management. Thankfully, the other mentors, including myself, stepped in and stopped the situation from getting worse. We managed to have a firm discussion with the student on why his behaviour was unacceptable at Beyond Self.

Although I, as well as the other mentors, have the authority to step in to discipline the children, it is also important to have self awareness when disciplining them. This is such that we must be aware of the tone our voices and control our own anger and stress levels as well so as not to frighten the children.

Moving forward in future sessions, I feel that we require a better discipline method or system since the current one has not been effective with the children.