The document discusses various behavioral and emotional problems in children including disruptive behavior, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional problems, emotional problems, eating/feeding problems, tantrums, lying, anxiety, and aggression. It provides tips for using positive discipline with children through understanding behavior, consistency, giving choices/consequences, and changing environments. Interventions for aggressive toddlers and preschoolers include limiting TV/videos, applying empathy/consequences, teaching social skills, and attending to positive behavior. Consulting medical/mental health professionals can help identify causes such as poor parenting, trauma, genetic issues, health problems, or unstable family situations.

1. Dr. Shikha Sharma
Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital,
Udaipur (Raj.)

2.  Disruptive Behavior
 Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
 Oppositional Problems
 Emotional Problems (fears, crying anxiety,
depression and posttraumatic stress separation anxiety
, social phobia,specific phobia )
 Eating and Feeding Problems

3.  Tantrums
 Habits and lying
 Anxiety

4.  Use reminders
 Share feelings
 Change the environment
 Use consequences
 Time out
 Try rewards
 Discipline

5. Tips for Practicing Positive
Discipline
 Understand the meaning behind the behavior
 Focus on controlling yourself—not your child
 Be consistent with your expectations
 Give attention to the behavior you like—not the
behavior you don't
 Redirect, redirect, redirect
 Exploit the "energy drain
 Don't bribe.

6. Helping Aggressive Toddlers and
Preschoolers
 Begin intervention as early in the child's life as possible
 Limit exposure to television and videos.
 Practice alternatives to spanking.
 Consistently apply empathy and logical
consequences for aggressive behavior.
 Neutralize arguments and power struggles.
 Teach social skills and problem solving on a daily
basis.
 Systematically attend to positive behavior

7. How to Discipline Young Kids
Effectively: 4 Steps Every Parent
Can Take

8.  Step One: Be "Swift and Safe."
 Step 2: The Consistency Piece.
 Step 3: The Importance of Giving Choices
 Step 4: Give Consequences and Rewards

9. Biting, Bullies and Other Bad
Behavior At Preschool

10.  Stop the problem while it's small.
 Use swift and meaningful consequences.
 Train your child to do something else instead.
 Reinforce your child's efforts.
 Model leadership skills, and change the play
environment.

11. Consult with qualified medical and
mental health professionals.
 Listed below are just a few possible causes of
aggressive behavior in young children:

12.  Poor parenting
 Trauma in the form of abuse or neglect
 Brain damage due to closed-head injury, lack of oxygen
during the birth process, prenatal exposure to drugs,
alcohol, or other toxins, etc.
 Genetic abnormalities
 Other health problems
 Marital problems resulting in family instability
 Observation of aggressive peers

13. Thank you