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Challenging Behavior
May 24, 2011
The net of the sleeper catches fish.
-Greek Proverb
-Greek Proverb
- Children are in the process of learning acceptable behavior.
- An effective guidance approach is preventative because it respects feelings while addressing behavior.
- Adults seek to understand reasons for children's behavior.
- A supportive relationship between an adult and a child is the most critical component of effective guidance.
- Adults use forms of guidance and group management that help children learn self-control and responsiveness to the needs of others.
- Adults model appropriate expressions of their feelings.
- Adults make needed adjustments to a child's environment or schedule to meet his or her needs.
This volume of Exchange Essentials includes 20 selected Exchange articles, in pdf format, focusing on dealing with children with challenging behavior:
- We Are All in This Together
by Mary Louise Hemmeter - Don't Expel That Child!
by Linda Crisalli - Lessons From My Mother-In-Law: A Story about Discipline
by Janet Gonzalez-Mena - Challenging Behavior
by Holly M. Bishop and Douglas S. Baird - Hard Joys: Managing Behavior with a Creative Mind and a Playful Spirit
by Lilli-ann Buffin - Time Out: How It is Abused, What It Could/Should Look Like
by Roslyn Duffy - And 14 More!
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Displaying All 4 Commentskcaa preschools
United States
This topic, is so timely. We, as a staff were just talking about challenging behaviors in an in-service. It is important to identify what is challenging for the child vs. what is challenging for the adults.
I appreciate ChildCareExchange's daily quotes, we copy them and write them down on our wipe board/parent board daily along with information (e.g., absences, reminders). Parents love the quotes!
Shishu Vikash Kendra
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Hello
Child friend , Its pleasure to make the child respectable to elders .
United States
My heart and head agree fully with this article. Never should respect be left out of the situation when dealing with challenging behavior. However, as a director I struggle hugely with behavior that is violent towards others. There is no way to assign one staff member to a child for a full 9 hour day. If a family refuses to seek help then I am forced to make a hard decision. Respect and protect the other children in the classroom and ask this child to leave. Or continue the struggle, using what resources I can and risk hurting other children & families. (The resources are limited because any intervention calls for parental permission.) I have done both and felt that I failed.
United States
Great thoughts! I especially love the word "respect" when working with young children.
Too many clinicians talk about strategy without addressing the human need for respect in people, especially the most vulnerable of our society.
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