Summary Of One Child By Torey Hayden

Every child has issues rather they be big or small or in between but it’s how we as parents and authorities deal with them that makes an impact on them. The discipline and love we show them is what will help them in the long run become who they are meant to be. Its very important we educate ourselves in discipline and love so not only our children but anyones children that we are around can benefit from it. In the book One Child by Torey Hayden we meet a young child of six years old named Shelia. We first hear of Sheila in a newspaper article which stated a six year old girl had abducted a neighborhood child. On that November evening, she had taken the three year old boy, tied him to a tree and burned him. The boy was currently in the local hospital in critical condition and
She’s very good at keeping her cool when stuff gets obnoxious in her room however there are some things she didn't do correctly. In the beginning of the book when she first gets Sheila in her class she expected too much out of Sheila. She expected Sheila to act like all the other children and to behave like them. When she had no clue what it would be like in t=the classroom.
The Second thing Torey did wrong is not creating a specific behavior plan. Torey kind of plays it by ear if shelia doesn't do something right several times she got different punishments. When she did good things she wasn’t rewarded. This leads Sheila to not know when she has done wrong and when she has done right. In the book Torey never explains what is expected and if she did it was after Shelia had done something wrong. She should have explained in detail what was expected out of her in the classroom. When Torey returns from her two day absence and fins the Shelia had misbehaived during that time shes angry and right away took Shelias privalege of going on the feild trip. Shelia makes no connection of the two whats so