GUIDING CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR


  1. Express your love and respect for your children each day.
  2. Notice children's good behaviour and their efforts to make things work.
  3. Plan ahead to provide a safe play space with interesting and age-appropriate activities.
  4. Be predictable by providing a routine, being consistent, and following through on consequences.

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  5. Set up reasonable limits, expectations, and consequences that relate to each child's age and temperament.
  6. Communicate rules, limits and consequences clearly.
  7. Gradually teach your child to handle a range of emotions.
  8. Redirect, distract, or use humour to help a child to calm down.
  9. Offer choices and let them learn from consequences.
  10. Model problem-solving, negotiating and understanding of others, as well as the behaviours you want your children to have - teach and lead instead of using force.
REMEMBER:
     BE FIRM BUT HAVE REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS.
     IT TAKES TIME FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR.

Adapted from Landy, Sarah (1997, in press). Pathways to Competence: A Program to Encourage Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children.
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