Martha: We’ve now seen this video. If you have any questions or comments about this, things that you noticed, share them now.

Here are the observations from this video:

• Anne is very quiet, no cheerleading
• She raises criteria when Lear is ready
• He is trying hard and cooperating
• He is having fun He smiles when he hears the tag
• There is no error correction, he just tries again if he doesn’t get a tag

Martha: I think all of those are really important, but especially I always think that the “no cheerleading” is important because our kids are so sensitive (can be so sensitive) to noise and movement and emotion, that if we have a lot of ra! ra! going on, even though it’s happy (yay you did  it!), it can be overwhelming. It can be overwhelming for our kids, so just to introduce that element of quiet consistency: click yes did it; click, yes you did it; with no extra noise and emotion is really valuable for our kids. Then they can really focus on what they’re doing and what they’re being tagged for. I think it helps them pay attention and I think they learn faster. Certainly that has been my experience with my son. So that is all really to the good.