Children
come in all shapes, sizes, personalities, and behavior
traits.
As a homeschooling parent you are more acutely aware
of all of these traits in your child than anyone.
Teaching
your child is a tremendous challenge. Aside from the books,
the alphabet, the numbers and such, there is a certain
amount of behavior management that you must employ to
successfully teach your child at home.
Each child is different and motivates differently, some
maintain their attention quite easily while there are some
that do not. Some children may be strapped with actual
behavior challenges.
If the behavior becomes
disruptive enough and constant enough that typical
behavioral management techniques fail to produce change,
it could be time to seek additional resources and testing
for your child. This is generally true when managing the
child's behavior becomes the focus of the day and actual
learning is taking a back seat. This can be an additional
burden if the disruptive child begins to affect your other
children if you are indeed engaged homeschooling more than
one of your kids at a time.
If indeed a learning disability such as Attention Deficit
Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is
determined then preventative measures can begin early on in
your behavior management strategy.
With many
children perceived behavior problems can actually stem from
a lack of success in whatever tasks you may have them
attempting to learn. In other words the child initially
struggles to learn what is presented or cannot perform the
task well enough to perceive success and this results in the
child not wanting to do the task or stay focused on the
learning event because they feel they have little chance of
success.
Frustration builds, and so does the “attitude”.
Success begets success and motivation will run higher making
your behavior management a much smaller part of your
day if you do your best to ensure successes with your
child's tasks then celebrate each of those accomplishments. As the
successes rise behavior and discipline issues will decline.
No one set of
rules applies to all children. But barring the diagnosis of
any of the more serious learning issues, reaching lofty
goals and achieving high standards is accomplished by one
small success at a time.
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