Re: ***keep_mailing*** Guidelines for Dealing with an ANGRY Child

On 7/31/12, Junaid Tahir <mjunaidtahir@gmail.com> wrote:
> Article by Leah Davies, M.Ed
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> *AVOID*
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> 1. Screaming at the child.
>
> 2. Embarrassing the child.
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> 3. Shaming the child.
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> 4. Labeling the child.
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> 5. Threatening the child.
>
> 6. Hitting the child.
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> 7. Hurting the child in any way.
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> 8. Indulging the child.
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> 9. Reinforcing inappropriate behavior by giving in to his/her
> outbursts.
>
> *DO*
>
> 1- Accept the child as a valuable human being.
>
> 2- Accentuate his/her strengths.
>
> 3- Acknowledge appropriate behavior.
>
> 4- Provide a safe, respectful environment with clear limits.
>
> 5- Follow through with meaningful consequences for aggressive acts.
>
> 6- Provide a predictable day with opportunities for the child to make
> choices.
>
> 7- Model kindness, fairness, firmness, and consistency.
>
> 8- Watch the child carefully noting the antecedents to hostile behavior.
>
> 9- Anticipate angry outbursts and arrange activities to reduce them.
>
> 10- Understand that anger is often a reaction to feeling misunderstood,
> unloved, hurt or afraid.
>
> 11- Assist the child in learning and using a vocabulary of feeling words.
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> 12- Listen and mirror the feelings he/she expresses.
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> 13- Facilitate communication between the child and others.
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> 14- Teach the child that anger is a natural emotion that everyone has.
>
> 15- Help the child understand that it is okay to feel angry, but that it
> is not okay to hurt others.
>
> 16- Provide a safe place for the child to calm him/herself.
>
> 17- Teach the child ways to cope with angry impulses: stop and think,
> problem solve, sit alone, breathe deeply, tense body and relax, use play
> dough, count, draw, exercise, rest or read.
>
> 18- Help the child meet his/her psychological needs: to feel loved,
> accepted, secure, recognized, and a part of a group
>
> http://www.kellybear.com/ParentTips/ParentTip6.html
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