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Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
There are several strategies for dealing with challenging behaviours in a child.

Parents as Partners: Enhancing Self-Esteem
When parents and practitioners join together in relationships of mutual respect, their partnership forms the foundation for children’s positive self-esteem.

Strengthening Communication Skills
Child care experts today agree that the components of language and literacy – the ability to listen, speak, read and write – are equal and interrelated: the development of one relies on the development of the others.

Practitioners and Families Together: Encouraging Positive Behaviour
Families and early childhood practitioners have complementary areas of expertise that make them ideal partners in helping children develop social competence.
Handwashing: the best prevention for colds and flu
Washing your hands and your kids’ hands is the best way to stop the spread of germs
Physical Punishment – It’s Harmful and It Doesn’t Work
The misgivings many parents feel around administering physical punishment are well founded. Research shows that not only does physical punishment not work, it can have detrimental effects on a child’s healthy development.
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