Challenging Behavior

Through engaging illustrations and a storybook format, 1-2-3 Magic for Kids lays out the program in a way that’s relatable for kids of all ages.

The ultimate guide to effective parenting strategies! With a wealth of optimal techniques and research-based solutions, this bestselling book provides parents with the essential tools to tackle challenging behaviors and foster a harmonious family dynamic

This book covers topics like helping families address challenging behavior, using positive support in early intervention, and much more. This could be used by parents or educators.

A children’s book that teaches kids about their angry emotions and how to manage them in a healthy way.

This video provides a guide to the use of The Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE-2), an overview of emotional and social development and provides an inside look at the screening sytem in practice with a home visitor using the tool with the family of a 4-year old boy.

Video Duration: 25 min

Specially developed to complement ASQ:SE-2, this essential resource makes it a snap to share practical social-emotional strategies with parents of children from birth to age 6. (cd-rom included)

This book examines the root causes of tantrums and anger, including anxiety, depression, and sensory issues, and provides a variety of methods to strengthen child bonds and combat behavior issues, all while gaining a better understanding of the child.

This book covers many topics like how to respond to challenging behavior, why children behave certain ways, etc.

1. Hands Are Not for Hitting / Las Manos No Son para Pegar by Martine Agassi
2. Cool Down and Work Together Through Anger / Cálmate y Supera la Ira by Cheri J. Meiners
3. Difficult Behaviors in Early Childhood: Positive Discipline for PreK-3 Classrooms and Beyond by Ronald Mah
4. Addressing Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood: A Teacher’s Guide by Dawn M. Denno, Victoria Carr, & Susan Hart Bel
5. When Nothing Else Works: What Early Childhood Professionals Can Do to Reduce Challenging Behaviors by William DeMeo
6. Sand Timer Set by Lakeshore

This book offers strategies to help caregivers teach the littlest children pro-social behaviors and techniques to deal in developmentally appropriate ways with challenging behaviors such as biting and hitting. Learn how infants and toddlers develop socially and emotionally and discover ideas for nurturing self-regulation, skills for joining in play, expressing needs and emotions, conflict-resolution skills and more.

Discipline is an essential part of raising happy and successful kids, but as more and more parents are discovering, conventional approaches often don’t work, and can even lead to more frustration, resentment, power struggles, and shame. Enter Sarah Ockwell-Smith, a popular parenting expert who believes there’s a better way. Citing the latest research in child development, psychology, and neuroscience, Ockwell-Smith debunks common myths about punishments, rewards, the ‘naughty chair’, and more, and presents practical, connection-based techniques that really work, and that bring parents and kids closer together instead of driving them apart. Topics include: Setting, and enforcing, boundaries and limits with compassion and respect; Focusing on connection and positivity instead of negative consequences; Working with teachers and other caregivers; and Breaking the cycle of shaming and blaming.

Video Duration: 420 min

Filled with ideas to try today, Gentle Discipline helps parents of toddlers as well as school-age kids embrace a new, more enlightened way to help kids listen, learn and grow.

This video discusses difficult behaviors and how to react and change those behaviors.

Video Duration: approx. 54 min

This interactive program teaches parents how to create an emotional connection so their child can thrive. Focusing on relational parenting, it features an overview of emotional needs, common parent-child conflicts, and how parents can modify their reactions to meet their child’s critical emotional needs: to feel respected, important, accepted, included, and secure. Parents will also learn skills to help reduce stress and maintain their own emotional health.

Video Duration: 23 min

This book teaches frustrated, stressed-out parents that selectively ignoring certain behaviors can actually inspire positive changes in their kids. Combining highly effective strategies with time-tested approaches, she teaches parents when to selectively look the other way to withdraw reinforcement for undesirable behaviors.

Audiobook on 5 CDs.

This book depicts the many ways we experience the universal bond of love, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. With a lyrical text that’s soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.

Manage Emotions for Children, written by the expert in emotional intelligence for children Dr. Kenneth Martz, has accompanied children and families for 25 years in managing their emotions as well as providing communication tools to families.

This DVD discusses challenging behavior and how to promote positive behavior in children.

Video Duration: 69 min

Raising happy, compassionate, and responsible children requires both love and limits. This book weaves together ancient wisdom and modern science to provide new perspectives on parenting and discipline.

Also available as an audiobook on 6 CDs

Provides an easy-to-follow, four-step model to improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, understanding why a meltdown occurs, and creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.

This DVD teaches young parents how to build a loving and trusting relationship through emotional health and positive discipline.

Video Duration: 9 min

This book provides valuable tools to help nurture relationships, measure progress, reduce child stress, address challenging behaviors and promote self-regulation. Full of clear, straightforward steps, guiding principles and useful techniques backed by neuroscience and research, this book provides practical methods so that all childhood providers can better support the social and emotional lives of children and families.

Young children are better able to cope with their ever-changing world, overcome obstacles, and grow into emotionally healthy adults if they are provided opportunities to build their self-awareness and confidence. Help children appreciate themselves and others, explore relationships, and develop coping mechanisms for dealing with change and difficult events in their lives as they learn about self-esteem, emotions and feelings, family, friends, and changes in life.

This book provides teachers with the tools they need to help children become socially and emotionally healthy for life. Organized into five chapters, the activities support and build resilience in children ages three to eight.

Now updated with new material throughout, this book is the seminal, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three. It offers an in-depth examination of toddlers’ emotional development, and illuminates how to optimize this crucial stage so that toddlers can develop into emotionally healthy children and adults.

This book explains how tantrums in toddlers are normal but avoidable, what leads to temper tantrums, how to communicate effectively with toddlers, and how to reduce tantrums.

This book provides information, practical strategies, and advice to help kids make smarter choices and control their behavior. This is intended for kids and/or parents.

This workbook will show parents, educators, and therapists how to transform their child’s challenging behaviors into successes through a simple, powerful, and time-efficient approach.

This book is for educators on reducing behavior problems and nurturing the growth of all learners in classrooms.

This book provides a framework of understanding a range of emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges and explores a process through which educators and parents can translate their growing understanding of difficulties into sensible goals for intervention.

This book explains how educators and professionals should best respond to children with challenging behavior and how to understand them.

The purpose of this article is to discuss how a parent coaching framework with the support of several critical components can be applied to build parent competency as a way to address children’s challenging behaviors. With coaching, parents and service providers can partner to effectively support young children’s appropriate behaviors, decrease or eliminate challenging behaviors, and improve family quality of life.

This article discusses basic behavioral concepts to provide family members and professionals with practical and essential knowledge about challenging behavior, the reasons it occurs, and the process by which adults can effectively select strategies to prevent or intervene on these behaviors.

The Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center houses important information for Head Start programs, providers, and families, along with high-quality general early childhood information.

This list of resources from the National Association for the Education of Young Children provides information for families and child care providers.

This pamphlet provides information about temper tantrums and questions for caregivers to create a “plan of action” for the child.

This webpage offers tips for parents on how to discipline their child. Including topics like: teach all the steps, catch your child being good, children need limits, set clear rules, listen to your child, and when your child makes you angry.

This federally funded project supports the capacity of state systems and local programs in implementing an early childhood multi-tiered system of support to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of young children with, and at risk for, developmental disabilities or delays. This project creates FREE products and resources to help caregivers.

These infographics provide tips on preventing challenging behavior and using visual cues and prompts with young children.