You’ve heard of the Paper Monitor and the Office Monitor.
Meet the Comfort Monitor!
Today is the first day I’ve ever seen this classroom job and it’s pretty cool. It helps kids practice empathy in a structured way with responsibility.
It’s also really cute!
Mister G Kids 
January 30th, 2014 at 1:59 am
Wow, that’s cool! Nice cartoon, too. 😀
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:03 am
thanks! yes it is very cool!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:04 am
there is a special set of stuffed animals used JUST for the comfort monitor job!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:06 am
It’s good to hear about schools teaching real life lessons. It’s been needed for a long time.
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:26 am
yes, kicking and dragging they are changing, and this is a liberal city in California, and it’s STILL taking ages to make changes! but they are making a difference 🙂
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:01 am
That’s a great idea, Matt. I’ve never heard of this in my seven years of teaching.
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:04 am
me neither in seven years of mine! it’s brilliant and the kids take real ownership of it.
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:21 am
That’s interesting, I will have to ask if they do that at my daughter’s school.
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:26 am
do
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:27 am
It’s adorable and i need a teddy bear after that floppy disk ordeal…
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:27 am
i have several of each for these occasions!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:34 am
wonderful bring on the bears!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:41 am
HELL YES BEAR TIME OSO OSO TIME!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:51 am
we’ll have to get a bear company!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:52 am
build-a-comfort-bear!
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:53 am
i like the way you think! beary smart!
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January 30th, 2014 at 3:20 am
Reblogged this on It's A Sketchy World and commented:
A teddy bear sheds some light on the 21 century
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January 30th, 2014 at 3:50 am
yay! thank you!
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January 30th, 2014 at 5:55 am
The world would be a better place with “Comfort Monitors.” 🙂
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January 30th, 2014 at 7:10 am
I know right?!
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January 30th, 2014 at 7:25 am
Awww…wish schools in our time had them..:)
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January 31st, 2014 at 1:07 am
Me too. It would have saved hundreds of dollars in therapy.
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January 30th, 2014 at 2:38 pm
I misread your speech blurb, and thought it said “aren’t. ” That’s a serious tough-love comfort lesson there! First she giveth, and then she taketh away.
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January 31st, 2014 at 1:12 am
I can always count on you to find the stuff behind the stuff! 🙂 I struggled with this because in the real situation, I was mad at the kid for getting out of her chair during classtime. I had no idea it was her job to go get a stuffed animal for kids who cry. Imagine a classroom of little kids I’m trying to keep under control, one kid is crying, and then children just start getting out of their seats – to a teacher that’s one step from mutiny. For the comic and in one panel and one sentence, I thought it might be perceived that I come off as mean, but I left it in. It’s always a balance between overexplaining for polite laughs and economy of text for reflexive primal laughs. I prefer the latter even if it means sacrificing some context.
I love your comments.
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January 30th, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Aaaaaah just the hit of sweetness I needed today! I’ve been away for so long from this lovely blog. No wonder I’ve been missing some mushy smileyness in my life… thank you comfort monitor G 🙂
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January 31st, 2014 at 1:13 am
Sure! And I miss you! I’ve needed a teddy bear this whole time you’ve been away!
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January 30th, 2014 at 8:20 pm
love it! hahaha! I need to hire her in our ministry for the kids-lol
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January 31st, 2014 at 1:20 am
She’s totally rentable
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January 31st, 2014 at 12:12 am
Yeah, but just as the Teddy Bear and one bonds they take it away and you remain a grief stricken existential cynic, pessimist, depressed alcoholic at 9 years old.
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January 31st, 2014 at 1:21 am
Well, someone has to create future poets/actors/artists/dictators don’t they?!
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January 31st, 2014 at 3:23 am
I love this so much. And I think my daughter now has a new career path. She’s already an amateur comfort monitor. I’ll talk to her kindergarten teacher next year about helping her become pro.
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January 31st, 2014 at 4:35 am
lol going pro! get her some endorsements!
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January 31st, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Great idea. I will pass it on.
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January 31st, 2014 at 11:12 pm
Thanks!
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February 1st, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Glad to hear that…kids could use examples of empathy, God knows there aren’t a whole lot of good examples these days…bullying, intolerance, etc. Good!
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February 3rd, 2014 at 10:20 pm
agreed! kids can do better than we did!
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February 3rd, 2014 at 10:41 pm
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