Family Support Network | Responding to Challenging Behaviors

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Responding to Challenging Behaviors

Finding new ways to react to your child's difficult behavior will help them learn new skills to use to express themselves. These responses won't encourage the difficult behavior and make it less likely to happen.

Resources

Stay Calm, Protect, Reconnect

Stay Calm, Protect, Reconnect

Learn what to do when children engage in challenging behavior.

Help Us Calm Down: Strategies for Children

Help Us Calm Down: Strategies for Children

Discover strategies to help calm a challenging situation with your child.

Give Your Child Choices

Give Your Child Choices

Learn how to prevent challenging behaviors by giving your child choices.