In an attempt to assist students with special needs, new categories of disabilities have been created. Students are labeled and classified with behavioral disorders. Thus, viewed through the prism of special handicaps, these students are too often not held accountable for irresponsible behavior. A disservice will have been done to these students because the school world in which they have grown up is unlike the greater society. All young people need to learn that they have the freedom to choose their responses and that they will be held accountable for their choices.
Language shapes our thinking, particularly when it comes to self-talk.
Taking conscious control of inner chat can act like a magic wand to shift to more empowering mental states. Victimhood is the result of thinking of outside forces rather than internal responses. Another strategy to reduce powerlessness is to change adjectives into verbal forms. As soon as we phrase it as an action, we become immediately aware of a choice. Self-talk should convey commitment.