"my brain isnt working right now!"

I had to step in and take care of a student who was being disrespectful towards an adult. The adult was also very upset, so the situation was not going to resolve itself quickly. My thought process was to ask the student to go get their food and that we would talk about it later. The adult did not like how I did not administer a consequence and wanted to disagree with my analysis of the situation. First of all, the student who was upset is a student who gets in trouble quite frequently and has a very short temper. When I tried to explain this to the adult his response was, "my brain isn't even working right now I am so upset." Well... he pretty much had his own answer for how to solve the problem. This student was so upset that his brain was also not working. He was reacting in the only way he knew how, so the best thing to do is to give him space and talk to him when the emotions of calmed down. Its important to not forget about the behavior, but in the heat of moment, drastic consequences are made and then the students behavior only heightens.

This was an eye opening moment as I have been getting better at responding this way to students inappropriate behavior but I still have moments where I too need reminders.