Discourage Disrespectful Behavior In Children

Teaching children to be respectful is one of the most important things they can learn to develop their personality. Being respectful will help them be more sympathetic to others, and in the end help them to build stronger more beneficial friendships. Here’s three important things you can for the children under your care to help establish a solid foundation for respectful behavior.

Discourage Disrespect

If you are attentive to even the most inconspicuous types of disrespectful behavior, you as a childcare professional, will be able to provide immediate feedback for a child. Many times children do not even understand that they are being disrespectful.

Disrespectful behavior is learned and continually modified as it is unconsciously allowed to continue. By keeping keen focus on the behavior on the children you are privileged to monitor, you can help them gradually improve their level of respect.

Since learned behavior in children creates a foundation for their personalities, catching disrespectful behavior immediately is a vital key in helping to change. If you politely discourage disrespect, you will be planting …show more content…
Sometimes you will be battling situations where children are exposed to monumental disrespect in their own homes. Be sympathetic that every child’s situation can be different. Expecting all the children under your care to maintain a consistently similar level of personal respect is not realistic. If you have been following the suggestion to be extra attentive to their behavior, you will appreciate which ones are more challenged when it comes to showing respect. Be fair to all. Treat them evenly, but also realize that how fast a child begins to adapt their behavior to being more respectful is going to have a lot to do with where they are individually in their social advancement. The only real expectations you can safely have for all your children collectively is that they will all learn respect at their own