Why Are Some Children More Challenging Than Others
Why are some children more challenging than others?
Karly Turner
ECE 201 Intro to Early Childhood Behavior Management
Instructor: Shealiah Jordan
December 15, 2014
Every child has a different personality, no child is the same. I have three children and each one has different personality trait. As an educator, we first have to understand how a child’s development works. This is how a children grows, develops, and learn. Brault states that nature, and nurture work together to shape a child, knowing what a typical behavior for a child’s age is important (Brault, Linda and Tom Brault., 2005). Younger children find it hard to communicate so this is when they turn to hitting, biting, and spitting to get their point across. Other children …show more content…
Families play such a vital role in their child’s development. A parent under stress can sometime become abusive. It can begin with a relatively trivial demand, like a parent asking a child to do or not do something, the child ignores the request or refuses to comply. Then the parent responds more aggressively, scolding, or pleading with the child, who then again refuses, by whining and talking back. The exchanges escalate to yelling and threats, hitting and temper tantrums, until the parent finally gives up and gives in or explodes into violence—and then the child stops, too. (Rasminsky 32). As educators working together with the family can help the parents feel that you care about their child. Giving the parents resources to help with challenging behavior, can help. It is important to remember, that a parent and the child’s interaction is a two-way thing. The child’s temperament will strongly influences the people in her life will react to them. Each parent responds according to his or her own temperament. If the fit between parent and child is not a good one, then poor parenting may be the result. A new study shows that children who are fussy at the age of one will elicit both spanking and verbal punishment (Berlin et al., 2009) (Rasminsky 32-33). Raising a child is difficult and can be complicated work that requires a vast amount of time and energy. It is important for teachers to understand the family’s role in challenging behavior, but it is equally important not to blame them. (Rasminsky
Karly Turner
ECE 201 Intro to Early Childhood Behavior Management
Instructor: Shealiah Jordan
December 15, 2014
Every child has a different personality, no child is the same. I have three children and each one has different personality trait. As an educator, we first have to understand how a child’s development works. This is how a children grows, develops, and learn. Brault states that nature, and nurture work together to shape a child, knowing what a typical behavior for a child’s age is important (Brault, Linda and Tom Brault., 2005). Younger children find it hard to communicate so this is when they turn to hitting, biting, and spitting to get their point across. Other children …show more content…
Families play such a vital role in their child’s development. A parent under stress can sometime become abusive. It can begin with a relatively trivial demand, like a parent asking a child to do or not do something, the child ignores the request or refuses to comply. Then the parent responds more aggressively, scolding, or pleading with the child, who then again refuses, by whining and talking back. The exchanges escalate to yelling and threats, hitting and temper tantrums, until the parent finally gives up and gives in or explodes into violence—and then the child stops, too. (Rasminsky 32). As educators working together with the family can help the parents feel that you care about their child. Giving the parents resources to help with challenging behavior, can help. It is important to remember, that a parent and the child’s interaction is a two-way thing. The child’s temperament will strongly influences the people in her life will react to them. Each parent responds according to his or her own temperament. If the fit between parent and child is not a good one, then poor parenting may be the result. A new study shows that children who are fussy at the age of one will elicit both spanking and verbal punishment (Berlin et al., 2009) (Rasminsky 32-33). Raising a child is difficult and can be complicated work that requires a vast amount of time and energy. It is important for teachers to understand the family’s role in challenging behavior, but it is equally important not to blame them. (Rasminsky