Touching and handling your child gently and sensitively. Touching and treating a child gently in your day to day activities of putting on their shoes, lifting them into their high-chair or car seat helps them learn to be gentle towards others. Even helping a child get dressed can lead to them feeling over-powered and result in them over-powering other children, as children naturally re-enact what they experience. It also helps to prepare the child by explaining what you intend to do before and during normal activities; for instance “ok let’s go and change your nappy will we” giving them a minute to adjust, holding arms out and waiting for baby to come to you, this general approach increases their sense of having more power and decreases the fight flight response that often leads to the instinct to lash out. (Click link to read full article.) Genevieve
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 01:55:18 +0000
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