This week the weekly newsletter focused on challenging behaviors. The article suggested that challenging behavior can mean many things to many people. This website has developed a set of resources to help parents and professionals understand and respond to some of the most common and typical challenges that crop up in children’s early years which includes aggression, defiance, inconsolable crying, children who are slow-to-warm-up, and sleep challenges.
We have seen an increase in the last few years of children being diagnosed with behavior/mental disorders including a high rate of autism being diagnosed which in my opinion has created an issue of teachers maintaining a well behaved and smooth running classroom. I do understand that every child is born with his or her own temperament, but these temperaments does influences a child’s behavior and particularly in the classroom.
This newsletter suggested that it is impossible to offer one strategy or response that will work for everyone. To help you apply the information here to your individual child, think about how your child’s temperament might influence his or her behavior, and how you may adapt the strategies you read about to meet the needs of your child and your family.
Betty,
ReplyDeleteI also focused on challenging behaviors in children. I think this is a great resource for parents and caregivers to understand what a challenging behavior is, how they differ and how children differ as well!
The website information that you shared was very informative. I am excited to hear more. What is the website?
ReplyDeleteBetty,
ReplyDeleteOn your website,you chose a interesting topic on challenging behaviors for children during the earlier years. This is a topic that all professionals working with young children should learn more about. This would be a great website to keep as a future reference.
Betty I agree with you about children having challenging behavior problems and it does cause problems for the teacher and the other children in the classroom because as long as you have 1 or 2 that is being disruptive in the classroom the other children focus will be on them instead of the teacher. I know at Head Start they have a Behavioral Specialist from Mental Health to come in and observe the children to see what can be done like maybe some tips for the teacher to handle them when the children get out of hand or to see if they need to put the child/children into their Day-Treatment program where they keep them for 3 or 4 months treating them for their behavior problem then they will go back to Head Start.
ReplyDeleteBetty,
ReplyDeleteI had a child in my classroom that wasn’t diagnosed yet because he was only four and this was his first experience with preschool. Because of those factors, I had to fight to get him tested, which showed later he had Autism. Just him alone changed the entire dynamics of my classroom and it became very difficult. He would be fine one minute standing in line, and the next moment he was literally chocking other children, Parents were in denial that anything was wrong, and the other parents were worried about keeping their children safe (which I don’t blame them). Behaviors in a classroom, even at 4 years old, can definitely be an issue.