Three Challenging Behaviors Commonly Exhibited in Early Childhood

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Children are express their feelings through their behaviour because this is the way they know how to tell the people how they feel. Children's behaviour is influenced by a range of physical, biological, social and emotional, and environmental factors. "challenging behaviour is any form of behaviour that interferes with children's learning or normal development, is harmful to the child, or adults or puts a child in a high risk category for later social problems or school failure."(Chandler and Dahlquist,1997;Klass, Guskin, and Thomas,1995; Ritchie and Pohl, 1995).

Here are lots of challenging behaviours we can find in the childcare centres, this essay will focus on discussing in three challenging behaviours that children commonly exhibit in the early childhood setting, they are hitting, non-compliance and name calling behaviours.

Hitting is one kind of behaviour that children present others people with their feeling, and expressing themselves. Children may hit other child when they are fighting with toys. Such as A is playing a toy car, another child B just come and robbing A's car, at that time A's feeling is angry, so that A hit B, that's the way when A get angry, he may have difficulty to express himself verbally. Teachers, parents and whanau should have a responsibility to encourage children to develop their language skills, encourage them to use words to explore their feeling, like " Stop! I don't like it" or "I'm not happy when.....". Children notice and learn from others people's feeling, action and reaction, television and movies are the most influence to the children, because children are lack of copying skill, they are also like copy what the people do in the television or movies, such as Ben10 Watch and ...

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...ey're anger or upset with the name calling, encourage them to use appropriate language such as " I don't like the way you said that" or " you hurt my feeling when you said that".

Te Whariki: Belonging goal-4 Children experience an environment where they know the limits and boundaries of acceptable behaviour, so that we need to provide a positive framework for guiding children's behaviour, because children need a safe environment when they're at the early childhood centre and home. It's very important that teachers have a good partnership with parents and whanau, because parents are the first and most enduring educators of their children, teachers have knowledge of general child development, when they working to together, they can develop a clear understanding of the positive child's guidance for guiding their child's behaviour in effectively and efficiently ways.