NEW YORK – Liberal publications are taking the opportunity to poke fun at presidential candidate Donald Trump as he prepares for his first primary debate next month, likening the celebrity businessman to a kindergartener.

Mother Jones recently opined that “between his juvenile name-calling, dubious boasts, short attention span, constant need for attention, and temper tantrums when things don’t go his way, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump often resembles a six-year-old child.”

So the ultra liberal news site contacted a kindergarten teacher to ask her about dealing with similar behavior, though the site didn’t identify the teacher.

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Apparently, the point of the article is “to understand how Jeb Bush et al. might best react to a Trump tantrum on the debate stage next month” for the first Republican primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland August 6.

“Is it fair to say you’re used to dealing with childish behavior?” Mother Jones asked the anonymous educator.

“I teach kindergarten, but have also taught 2nd grade and Pre-K in the past. Childish behavior is my milieu,” the teacher responded.

Mother Jones spent a couple of questions asking the teacher about what types of childish behavior she sees on a daily basis, which was mostly yelling and calling her name, pulling on her body and clothes, and nose-picking. She said students in her class quickly learn not to call each other names, but each year there’s initially someone who puts down another student.

“I’ve heard everything from ‘poopyhead’ to ‘motherf*****,’” the teacher said.

What does the teacher do when students call each other names?

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“Find out the motivation, teach empathy, provide time to think about the effects of name-calling, suggest (but not force) an apology if the student doesn’t come up with this idea on his/her own. If it continues to be a problem, treat it not as a momentary lapse in self-control or poor judgement, but as a negative choice that deserves negative consequences,” the teacher said.

“If improvement is seen in a chronic offender, positive consequences (praise, recognition of behavioral improvement) should be offered. Either type of consequence needs to be doled out swiftly.”

Then Mother Jones got a little more Trump specific.

“So say I’m a student, and I call another student a ‘no-good rotten traitor.’ What happens then?”

The teacher:

“It depends on how mature the students are, how far along in the year it is, etc. In most cases, I would probably watch to see how the insultee (is that even a word?) reacts. If he/she handled the situation adequately, I would probably let it go and keep an extra close eye on the insulter (again…a real word?). If I had to intervene, I would go through the steps listed above, and probably assign the student some thinking time during recess (during which the student is not allowed to play–the student has to think about what he/she did to land in thinking time, tell me why it was wrong, and how it should be handled in the future; anyone who doesn’t come up with an adequate answer needs to think longer). If it was a chronic issue, I would also contact the parents to make them aware of the situation. In extreme cases, I would have the student speak with an administrator and would create a behavior modification plan.”

The teacher explained that most students only grow out of the name-calling and bad behavior if they’re called out on it, and made to understand how it makes the other person feel.

“Fortunately, I have found that most kids are ‘reformed’ very quickly when they take the time to consider how their unkind works make others feel,” the teacher said.

But what about someone like Trump, who “has been doing this kind of thing for 30 years”? the news site questioned.

The teacher then concludes the interview with reasons an adult might resort to name-calling, without indicating which options she believes applies to the presidential candidate.

“I see only four reasons why an adult would resort to name calling on a regular basis:

  1. Said person is a sociopath who has no ability to empathize
  2. Nobody ever took the time to teach said person that there are better way to deal with conflict
  3. Said person has been a victim for so long that he or she is constantly on the defensive and is actively trying to drive others away
  4. Said person is an asshole

Reasons 1-3 make me feel sad for that person. Reason 4 does not.”