Do a search on the Internet for any number of keywords about your child’s poor behavior and you’ll be bombarded with thousands of websites!! Literally.

Does this mean our society today is also bombarded with out-of-control kids who backtalk their parents, teachers, and other adults, having no regard for people in authority?

I looked up popular keywords people search for in regards to their child’s negative behavior patterns and this is just SOME of what I found:

• child behavior management
• child behavior modification
• child behavior disorders
• child behavior anger
• child behavior discipline
• child behavior issues
• child behavior improvement
• The List Goes ON and ON . . . .  (with many adjectives!)

I won’t go into creating a list of websites. That’s for you to do. But I can tell you the child behavior problem is obviously an epidemic.

I read an article about a young child who caused chaos for his mother everywhere she took him.  A little terror, by all rights of the imagination. Children who give their parents frustration and stress when they are preschoolers may apt to grow up taking the same behavior challenges into the classroom and social events.

I often wonder how parents deal with these over-active kids, other than medicating them? Watching commercials on television indicate the side effects medication has on adults. Some are very severe. So why would an intelligent, loving parent even consider medicating their child and experiencing what could be devastating side effects that could effect them all their life.

My opinion is that children should NOT be medicated. But, you’ll find plenty of websites dealing with this issue, also.

When I was a child I knew active kids. Actually, every kid was active in some way, if nothing more than riding a bicycle every day to their friends houses. We played on the playground and danced and swam and roller skated.  No one was medicated because they were too active. They just used up a lot of energy.

Parents didn’t ever think about medicating their child because being an active child was NORMAL.

Search the Internet and you’ll get confused. Too much contradictory information causes a head to spin. I recommend the old-fashioned way – do what you think is best for your child, knowing your child is perfectly normal in his or her own right.

Each child is unique. Don’t expect one to be the same as the other. Many children in the same household will all be different. That’s the way we’re made.

__________________________________________________________________

Author: The Behavior Solution – the Child Behavior Repair Kit for Parents

Sphere: Related Content