Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger.
At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Briggs persuaded an Inuit family to “adopt” her and “try to keep her alive,” as the anthropologist wrote in 1970.
Bench Notice
This is a terrific article that uses something that for some 30 years I have used in my teaching and in my work with students and my own children. The use of illustrations help to make life lessons come alive and when used correctly can embed the visual in a person’s mind. Once embedded the child can call upon these illustrations for future use when angry or frustrating circumstances arise. Please take the time to read the whole article and listen to the podcasts.
A Reflective Journal For Teachers
