There Are No Challenging Children

01/12/2017

There Are No Challenging Children

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, 5th century BCE

"We don't have challenging children," asserts Peter Pizzolongo in the Turn-Key training series, Addressing Challenging Behaviors: Promoting Social and Emotional Health in Young Children. "There are children who have a behavior that is a challenge."

In the same series, Mary Louise Hemmeter notes, "I like for adults to think of challenging behavior as telling us that the child can’t do something. So, if we interpret a child's behavior, for example, as 'he's scared and he doesn't know what to do when he's scared,' then we can address that behavior by teaching him what to do when he's scared."

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