Supporting Young Children with Challenging Behaviors

This article, geared towards parents, goes over what typical behavior looks like, helps parents recognize true aggression, and lists strategies to help your child with aggression.

This article will help parents help their child learn to manage strong emotions and reactions as they become aware of themselves as separate individuals from their parents and the other important people in their world.

How you react when a child lashes out has an effect on whether he will continue to respond to distress in the same way, or learn better ways to handle feelings so they don’t become overwhelming. This explains how adults should respond when children lash out.

This page provides links to behavior intervention resources, including guides, tools, issue briefs, videos & webinars, and general resources.

This document is the Routine Based Support Guide which was developed to assist teachers in problem-solving a plan to support young children who are having challenging behavior.

This article shows how early childhood educators can use strategies such as teaching empathy, discussing conflict, and developing expectations to support all young children and reduce their challenging behavior.

This provides information for educators to help support young children with challenging behaviors. Links to resources are included.

This article explains that parents and teachers can help children learn to cope with their feelings of anger and to express them appropriately.

This article presents 12 suggestions that may help parents provide children with the guidance they need.

Controlling anger and impulse is perhaps the most difficult task of emotional literacy. This article explains how teachers can play a significant role in helping children learn to control their anger and impulses and to handle disappointment in appropriate ways.

This digest explores what is known about the components of children’s anger, factors contributing to understanding and managing anger, and the ways teachers can guide children’s expressions of anger.

This 30-minute video presents that all behaviors communicate messages. Children need teachers who model and encourage respectful interactions.