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Teaching Your Child Self-Control
When kids melt down in the middle of a crowded store, at a holiday dinner with extended family, or at home, it can be ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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My Child Is Stealing
Your child does homework on time, helps you clear the table after dinner, and even helps with housework on the ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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"The Myth of the Bad Kid"
Six-year-old Jimmy is having trouble in school. As a first grader, he already has a reputation among the teachers as a ...
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Aggressive Behavior in Children
When a child physically hurts another child it can be upsetting to the teachers, parents and children who are involved ...
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Eight Practical Tips for Parents of Young Children with Challenging Behavior
Has life with your young child become filled with conflict and confusion? Does it seem as if even the simplest activity ...
Source: Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Division of Learning Disabilities (DLD)
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Setting Limits with Young Children
When children are under stress they lose their patience, their love of fun, their easygoing ability to make each day a ...
Source: Hand in Hand
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Biting, Pushing, Pulling Hair—Helping Children with Aggression
Has your child ever lashed out and hurt someone? Has another aggressive child ever bothered him? If your answer is yes, ...
Source: Hand in Hand
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Managing Classroom Behaviors: Tools to Facilitate Behavior Interventions in the General Education Setting
“Joey sit down. Joey sit down. JOEY SIT DOWN!” Do you find yourself repeating this instruction or others ...
Source: Autism Society
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School Refusal or Avoidance
A child experiencing more than just "school jitters" usually refuses to go to school on a regular basis or ...
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Developing Comprehensive Behavior Programs
It is a rare week that the news does not report an incident of violence in a school. The increase in incidents has led ...
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Recommended Practices for Promoting Social Development of Young Children
This list outlines recommended programs and strategies to promote positive outcomes in young children's social ...
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Educators Helping Students With Behavior Challenges
I Didn't Sign Up for This! Educators we work with often express the belief that their job is solely to teach academic ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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How to Determine What Is Reinforcing for Students
Reinforcement is very student specific. What is reinforcing to one individual may not be to another. Individual ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Children and Adolescents with Conduct Disorder
What is conduct disorder? Children with conduct disorder repeatedly violate the personal or property rights of others ...
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Emotional Disturbance
DefinitionEmotional Disturbance means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long ...
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Ask the Child Psychologist: Preschool Aggression
My preschooler has started to intentionally say things to upset people, like "You're dead!" or "You're a bad guy!â I...
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The Truancy Battle: Getting Kids to School
Skipping school. "Playing hookie". Sounds pretty fun, doesn't it? But for hundreds of parents across the country, it's a...
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Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Children: Characteristics
Children with emotional or behavioral disorders are characterized primarily by behavior that falls significantly beyond...
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Biological Risk Factors for Challenging Behavior
Genes Scientists are leaning more and more toward the view that a gene specifically "for" a disorder or condition such...
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Punishment Versus Logical Consequences
The key difference between logical consequences and punishment goes back to the three R's: related, respectful, and...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
