There are many ways to intervene early and provide needed support to effectively manage challenging behaviours and assist with alleviating childhood stress
Challenging Child Behaviours and Stress
Your relationship with the children is the most powerful tool you have. As you care for them, you come to learn all about them — their temperaments, developmental levels, play skills, families, cultures. You know what they enjoy, what frightens and frustrates them, what makes them sad or mad or stressed. Children experience stress just as adults do but it often goes unrecognized. There are many factors that could contribute to stress in children’s lives. Children often experience stress from ongoing situations, some of which may be beyond their control.
Fortunately, there are many ways to intervene and provide needed support early to effectively manage challenging behaviours and stress.
Meeting the Challenge
This user-friendly 40-page publication, teaches adults who work with young children and their families how to provide the effective early intervention that researchers see as key.
Challenging CHILD BEHAVIOURs AND STRESS Articles
Why do Children Lie? Helping Young Children Tell the Truth
Read more about why children lie, and how adults can help them tell the truth.
Applied Puppetry as a Pedagogy for Early Learning and Child Care
ECEs can use applied
puppets with children in child care for play based learning for social emotional development, inclusion, diversity, self regulation and language skills.
Building Resilience: Constructing ECE Knowledge of Trauma-Informed Practice in Early Learning Settings
Read about Mothercraft College of Early Childhood Education and their project team’s determination to build the resilience of infants, young children and ECEs.
The Lived Experience of Being a Parent of a Young Child with Mental Health Challenges
Apply these 3 key strategies to help support children’s mental health
Beyond COVID 19 Webinar – Supporting Children, Families & Staff: Reintegrating to the New Normal
This webinar took place in June 2021. Participants learned to view their own stress levels and find ways to build resilience. It will also help you identify the impact of this stress on a child’s behaviour.
Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
There are several strategies for dealing with challenging behaviours in a child.
Meeting the Challenge
This user-friendly 40-page publication, teaches adults who work with young children and their families how to provide the effective early intervention that researchers see as key.
Enjoy Some Of Our Past Content On Challenging Child Behaviours and Stress
1. Fear & Loathing: A Guide to Bullying Behaviour
Most bullying goes unreported because victims feel that nothing will be done and they might receive greater retaliation the next time.
Download the copy here.
2. When a Child Is Hospitalized
Preparation for a hospital stay can help to ease children’s and parents’ fears, and help make the hospital experience as pleasant as possible.
Download the copy here.
3. Helping Children Understand Death
Children will mourn differently from adults, but they do mourn. Here are some suggestions for helping children understand death.
Download the copy here.
