Teachers are seeing more students struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. This chapter explores why students may be facing more challenges. It suggests that factors like increased family problems, poverty, mental illness, addictions, violence exposure, and early puberty can all add stress and interfere with healthy emotional development. Teachers used to assume students came from safe homes, but that is often not the case anymore. Students are dealing with more stressful situations outside of school that affect their well-being and behavior in the classroom.

1. Emotional Poverty in All
Demographics
By Ruby Payne
Power Point Chapter 7
Kim Wesson

2. Chapter 7 More Factors in Emotional Development

3. Teachers
Increasingly are wondering
what is going on. Are
students really having
more emotional
development issues?

4. Teachers say students “seem” to
have more anxiety. About
everything. Well maybe they really
do.

5. Teachers report
students have more
serious behavior
issues, difficulty
following societal
rules and laws,
more aggression,
and increased
encounters with

6. Teachers anecdotally say kids just seem different the past few
years. The issues teachers deal with seem more serious and
more plentiful. This chapter explains why. They have a lot
gong on.

8. Many assumptions teachers
discuss more and more lately
turned out to be true in chapter 7.
Like maybe there are just more
mental illness and behavioral
issues. We sometimes wonder if
the ER’s of mental hospitals are
more overcrowded these days with
breakdowns. Well teachers may be
onto something.

9. KIDS REALLY ARE DEALING WITH MORE FAMILY
ISSUES WHICH ADDS STRESS. YOU DO NOT KNOW
WHAT STUDENTS HAVE TO DEAL WITH AT HOME.
YOU CAN NO LONGER ASSUME KIDS COME FROM
A SAFE, NURTURING ENVIRONMENT. You also
cannot assume their homelife is mentally healthy.

10. It’s sometimes a lot less like the
BradyBunch……………………………………
.

11. And more like this…

12. Parent alienation or abandonment in divorce, fatherless homes
the stress of poverty… all are childhood stressors and factors in
emotional development.

13. Survival/financial poverty
environment,
neighborhood effects are
influences on emotional
development. Poverty is
increasing in the US, not
decreasing. So so are
emotional development
problems.

14. Kids or their families living in fear
increases mental illness and
interferes with healthy emotional
development. There are a lot of
fearful situations and a lot of fear
peddling these days.
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15. • Addictions including screen addictions; the
students’ addicitons and/or parents; and their impact
on mental health and brain development. (Well that
would be 90% of them?)
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16. Death, war, violence…..

17. • Teachers’ have long said early
puberty does something ; well
turns out the teachers were right; it
is linked to emotional development
issues.
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