""Mah's new book is fantastic! It simplifies the different types of temper tantrums into a manageable approach for educators and child care professionals.""-Kelly Van Raden, Career Advocate for Early Care and EducationChild Care Links"Learn what ignites tantrums and how you can prevent them or lessen their impact!"
In clear and understandable language, this invaluable resource explains what's happening when a child throws a tantrum or exhibits other disruptive behaviors. The book offers specific guidance and directions to help teachers meet the challenge of a temper tantrum when it occurs while also increasing their awareness of their own expectations, beliefs, and reactions to children's aggressive behaviors.
In "The One-Minute Temper Tantrum Solution," Ronald Mah examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can trigger acting-out behaviors and explores four types of tantrums-manipulative, upset, helpless, and cathartic-that can appear as verbal and/or physical outbursts. With a wealth of examples, vignettes, and easy-to-implement strategies that help educators avoid long-term negative consequences for children, this accessible book: Offers interventions for managing each type of tantrumExplains how tactics based on distracting, ignoring, or shaming can lead to escalationAddresses tantrums that may be related to disabilitiesIncludes a chapter dealing with misdiagnosed tantrums and how to respond appropriately
Based on sensitive, caring principles that nurture and support all children, this practical book can also be used alongside Mah's "Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood," which covers issues underlying harmful behaviors.
In clear and understandable language, this resource explains what happens within a child when throwing a tantrum (verbal and/or physical) or exhibiting other disruptive behaviors, and offers teachers specific guidance and directions to meet the challenge. The One-Minute Temper Tantrum Solution helps teachers assess their beliefs about-and reactions to-children's aggressive behaviors to increase awareness of their own expectations and assumptions. The author examines developmental, situational, physical, and temperamental factors that can ignite acting-out behavior and explores the 4 types of tantrums that are related to power, distress, despair, and stress. The book includes vignettes, easy-to-implement strategies, and chapter summaries that highlight key topics.When educators recognize what causes aggressive behaviors, they can respond quickly to children's needs with appropriate strategies or interventions. This practical book can also be used in conjunction with the author's ""Difficult Behavior in Early Childhood"" which addresses issues underlying harmful behaviors.
