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Children And Homeschool Behavior Management
By Mary Joyce, Sat Dec 10th
Children come in all shapes, sizes, personalities, and behaviortraits. As a homeschooling parent you are more acutely aware ofall of these traits in your child than anyone. Teaching yourchild is a tremendous challenge. Aside from the books, thealphabet, the numbers and such, there is a certain amount ofbehavior management that you must employ to successfully teachyour child at home. Each child is different and motivates differently, some maintaintheir 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 enoughthat typical behavioral management techniques fail to producechange, it could be time to seek additional resources andtesting for your child. This is generally true when managing thechild's behavior becomes the focus of the day and actuallearning is taking a back seat. This can be an additional burdenif the disruptive child begins to affect your other children ifyou are indeed engaged homeschooling more than one of your kidsat a time.
If indeed a learning disability such as Attention DeficitDisorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is determinedthen preventative measures can begin early on in your behaviormanagement strategy. With many children perceived behavior problems can actually stemfrom a lack of success in whatever tasks you may have themattempting to learn. In other words the child initiallystruggles to learn what is presented or cannot perform the taskwell enough to perceive success and this results in the childnot wanting to do the task or stay focused on the learning eventbecause they feel they have little chance of success.Frustration builds, and so does the "attitude". Success begetssuccess and motivation will run higher making your behaviormanagement a much smaller part of your day if you do your bestto ensure successes with your child's tasks then celebrate eachof those accomplishments. As the successes rise behavior anddiscipline issues will decline. No one set of rules applies to all children. But barring thediagnosis of any of the more serious learning issues, reachinglofty goals and achieving high standards is accomplished by onesmall success at a time. About the author:Mary Joyce is a former educator, successful homeschool parent,and has written many articles on teaching yourchild at home for the Homeschool-Curriculum-4u website.Please visit (http://www.homeschool-curriculum-4u.com) for more of Mary's articles, resourceson homeschool, homeschooling ideas, and curriculum
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