Behavioral Disorder in Children
Behavior speaks of how one conducts themselves. It is their actions, reactions, and working in response to everyday environments and situations. Behavior includes the ability to acquire, maintain and change emotion for a task or situation.
Behavior offers a positive lead for personal development as Personality is what’s on the inside; behavior is what comes out. Measuring behavior allows us to focus on the words and actions which shape our interactions with others.
Since we can observe behavior, we can predict it too. People may not always behave as we expect in every little way, we always possess the capacity to surprise one another.
Challenging behavior is a term used to describe behavior that interferes with a child’s daily life. Managing children’s behavior is essential in maintaining order and structure in the lives of busy families, as well as setting children up for success.
Challenging behavior may seriously affect a child and parent’s careers health and quality of life.
The major risk associated with challenging behavior is self-injurious. Challenging behavior can often lead to social isolation.
We have observed over a period of time that when children are having difficulties with behavior, they get frustrated easily, displays opposition to the parent or adult requests, have frequent tantrums, and that too last for a longer time and are a little difficult to discipline.
- At BKI, we do not consider any child with challenging behavior rather we take it as a challenge for ourselves to make such child feels behaves and stays normal at his behavior. In order to achieve this, we work on different suitable strategies, some of which includes: establishing regular communication with parents,
- creating a journal that keeps us informed and allows us to address misbehavior quickly,
- establishing positive consequences to reinforce the behavior we want to see, for example, praising the child when we receive favorable outcomes and celebrating these successes motivates children to continue working on their behavior.
When children have a hard time managing their behavior, calmly talk with them and ask for their input about what would be helpful, encourage them to share their feelings, Once they are done sharing, reaffirm that it’s OK to feel upset, but reassure them that they are safe.
We have seen that working closely with children always brings positivity to their behavior and we consider it as our chief achievement.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
