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An important lesson: accepting rules
Some children have difficulties with the acceptance of rules and fixed behavioral rituals at first. That's why we design together a set of rules which everyone must uphold. The requirements on my part are limited to letting the children decide independently about sense or nonsense of the proposals made. For the phraseology, it is most important to accept the wording that the children choose.
The fact, that the rules are introduced by the children themselves, enables them to identify with them. It turned out that the children explain "their" rules to new students –and impose them vehemently.