How to Communicate With a Pre-Verbal Child

Teachers often catch things that could have developed into really horrible classroom situations by like week eight or nine. When you're getting that, when you're hypothetically receiving that hypothetically from a hypothetical student, something is going on. Because that's, that's not a child. Right? If you're talking about a pre-verbal child, right? Like their personality, their selfhood is not organized enough yet. And for it, as a teacher, you can actually develop that sort of sense of like, I'm feeling a feeling that I'm not accustomed to feeling in a classroom situation or in a situation with another adult. Is that my shit? Or actually is something else going on

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