Behavioral Interventions at Home and School

A young child is an emotional creature. Learn the connection between your preschooler’s emotions and his school success.

What You Need To Know

A child ready for school will exhibit social and emotional development. Research shows that kids who are emotionally well adjusted have a significantly greater chance of early school success.

Some say the current emphasis on children's academic preparedness continues to overshadow the importance of children's social and emotional development for school readiness

Here’s an overview of longitudinal research linking children’s emotional development to school readiness and early success.

For many children, academic achievement in their first few years of schooling appears to be built on a firm foundation of children's emotional and social skills.

• Research suggest the relationships that children build with peers and teachers are based on children's ability to regulate emotions.
• Psychologists find that children who act in antisocial ways are less likely to be accepted by classmates and teachers.

How You Can Help

Interventions have been made at the family, child care, school, and clinical site levels to address these difficulties as children enter school. Here are a few of them.

• Using modeling, role play, and group discussion, teachers can devote relatively small amounts of class time to instruct children on how to identify and label feelings and how to appropriately communicate .

• One concern is the link between harsh parenting and children's manifestation of behavior problems has been found to hold true for White families but not African American families in some studies, suggesting that interventions must be placed in culturally grounded frameworks

Dealing with your child’s emotions is difficult. Experts say you should label and validate the feelings at hand. Deal with the bad behavior then problem solve.Here’s details on how to do in an article about emotion coaching from Education.com. (http://www.education.com/reference/article/important-parenting-practices/)