Misbehaving

South Africa
August 30, 2006 9:06am CST
How should one handle a kid that always misbehave
9 responses
@kumbarn14 (735)
• Pakistan
16 May 07
A child who always misbehaves is the fault of the mother and father because they never corrected the child at the beginning and now the child has to pay for it. Always correct a child when he does something wrong immediately.
@aubry1 (267)
• United States
2 Sep 06
Don't wait punish the kid as some as this behavior starts. Spare the rob spoil the child is right.
@ransome (276)
• Nigeria
2 Sep 06
a child who misbehave, most be threat kindly day by day, and he or she will change.
@KHyuga (1694)
• Singapore
2 Sep 06
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
@Alexis (219)
• Portugal
2 Sep 06
I would check out his/her parents.
@Salixj13 (46)
• Israel
31 Aug 06
1)How old is the child? Can the child speak or are they pre-verbal? Preverbal children sometimes misbehave because of miscommunications. 2)Do the HTS test. Is the chld hungry, sick or tired? Answer the need and the misbehavior ill cease. 3)Rule out any medical or psychological cause for continued behavior. A child who has difficulties communicating for some reason or other, may misbehave out of frustration. 4)Ignorance can best. If you know the child fully comprehends what s/he is doing is wrong (you've discussed the matter and you have had the child tell you back why that behavior is wrong then a)if the behavior isn't life-threatening or property threatening, don't acknowledge it. Allow natural consequences to take force. If you must stop the behavior do it with the minimal amount of words and actions. Put the child out of the room if s/he continually interrupts you while on the phone and bolt the door. Don't say anything when you come out. If the child doesn't come to dinner on time, don't reheat food or make a new dinner. Dinner is when you've decided. They can be hungry or make themselves something if that is okay with you. The important thing is not to play into their game, not to react emotionally. b)If the behavior is life threatening, then of course stop it but again, don't get emotionally involved in the scenario. Let them kick, scream, taunt you etc, but don't buy the game. If the child is continually involving themselves in risky behavior and they have suffered physical injury several times or near misses (not normal cuts, bruises, bang-ups etc.) then counsling is needed. Any child may run in front of a car and almost get themselves hit, even a normally well behaved child may forget themselves and chase after a ball or a friend. But if the child is continually in such situations, that is a red flag to some deeper trouble. 5)Don't have a whole lot of nos that can be seen as violations. Let the child be a child. You've got 18 years to make it right, they don't have to be perfect angels all the time. I'm listening to a podcast now called Scream Free parenting, that sounds quite good, lmk if you'd like the link.
• India
31 Aug 06
It depends on the child, first observe the activites of the child and take him a counsiling.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
31 Aug 06
If they cannot be naughty, you anyone else be naughty. Most children are naughty at some time or the other. One has to accommodate all these. One can also go on (with a lot of patience) keep giving advice not to indulge in such things. Keep some incentive for not being naughty. Also have carrot and stick method to prevent recurrence of naughty things if those things are reaching dangeous proportions. Also best way is to get them into some hobbies which involves time and in the process they learn a lot from hobbies.
• United States
30 Aug 06
It depends on the type of misbehaving. The child may have an illness.