Frustration, Screaming, Aggressive Behavior – When Kids Aren’t Functioning Well
May 21, 2024
37:06
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Exploring challenges of children's frustrations, managing aggressive behavior, understanding sibling dynamics, and fostering empathy in parenting. Strategies for handling emotional and behavioral challenges, creating a safe space for expression, and addressing aggressive behavior in young children.
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Quick takeaways
Children's behavior can reflect underlying overwhelming emotions, requiring a safe space for expression and release.
Parental dialogue and understanding can help address behavioral issues, restoring children's motivation and love for learning.
Deep dives
Exploring a Child's Low Frustration Tolerance
A parent reaches out about their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter's low frustration tolerance, showcasing behaviors like screaming, hitting, and name-calling when things get challenging. The parent describes difficulties during daily activities like unloading the dishwasher or doing puzzles, possibly linking these behaviors to a recent move and disrupted napping routine. The podcast suggests that the child might be sitting on overwhelming feelings, leading to outbursts, and advises parents to create opportunities for the child to release and express these emotions in a safe environment.
Understanding a Child's Slacker Behavior
Another parent seeks advice regarding their six-year-old son's slacker behavior in online classes, attributing it to potential internal struggles related to transitions and the arrival of a sibling. The parent expresses frustration over their son's lack of focus and motivation, feeling guilty for outbursts and seeking strategies to address his academic disengagement. The podcast proposes fostering open conversations with the child to explore underlying emotions, creating a peaceful space for discussing challenges and feelings, aiming to restore his love for learning through supportive dialogue and understanding.
Navigating a Child's Aggressive Patterns
A parent shares concerns about their three-and-a-half-year-old son's recurring aggressive behaviors, marked by hitting, scratching, and defiance towards his younger sibling. The child's history includes phases of aggression triggered by various life events and situations, leading to disruptions at home and in school. The podcast recommends acknowledging the child's feelings behind the behaviors, providing support instead of judgment, and fostering one-on-one conversations to address underlying emotions and facilitate a safe outlet for expressing and processing feelings.
Our kids' behavior can mystifying, aggravating, worrying, and sometimes even infuriating. While the answers for resolving our concerns tend to be specific and unique to each particular situation, there are also general themes that can guide us. Janet explores one such theme in this week's episode and explains how it applies to 3 different situations parents have written to her about.
Learn more about Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" at: NoBadKidsCourse.com.
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