In this video clip, children work with their teacher to co-construct rules around issues of social justice. After a bit of rough and tumble play that has the potential to inflict hurt on one or more of the participants, the teacher asks the children to discuss strategies to reduce that potential. The children come up with some interesting ideas: from verbal warnings, to time-outs, to naps, to putting repeat offenders in jail. The teacher wants the children to consider creating a form of play that is satisfying but not dangerous. Notice how the children modify their ideas by referencing what the previous child has said, such as jail being a reasonable sentence only if you were bad many times, or how one child’s suggestion for a nap as a time-out would also allow the offender to “think about what he had done.”

