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Big muscles dictate how children move, balance and position themselves. Find out how they develop and learn how this development influences their behavior.

Behavior is a set of repeated habits that characterise a person. Behaviour in children is often a way of communicating their needs.  How children behave and show up in the world is dependent on what skills they have and how empowered they have become. Photo by Truth Enock: https://www.pexels.com/photo/toddler-girl-smiling-and-touching-toy-3124946/

One of the most powerful ways of modifying child behavior is by allowing them to learn by seeing the natural progression of their actions. Children learn through consequences as this leaves an imprint in their memory that allows them to recall and generalize behavior.

Some times children show maladaptive behavior because of an underlying condition or illness. Even with the slightest flu, children exhibit behavioral changes such as clinginess, irritability, demotivation and tantrums. Understanding this and making allowances will go a long way in normalizing these behaviors and reduce the stress on parents/guardians.

One of the reasons children ‘ act out’ or misbehave is loneliness or lack of attention. Buddying up helps to avoid the maladaptive behavior by ensuring children have the stimulus of social and emotional feedback from somebody they value. Click to hear more about this!

A trigger is a situation or state that causes something to function. Common triggers for children include hunger, temperature changes, loneliness, anger, need for attention, illness, soiling, etc. Commonly triggers result in challenging behaviors. Listen on to find out more about this connection and how to break the chain. Photo by Greta Hoffman from Pexels

Removal is the action of taking away that is the removal of the child from a situation in which the child is exhibiting maladaptive behavior adaptation. Listen in for details.

Negative reinforcement is a substance if when removed can increase the occurrence of desirable behavior. Find out how to use this technique by listening to the episode

Redirection is the reassignment of a child to an alternative behavior or task This is common with young children or children with ADHD and/or ODD. Often times they engage in maladaptive or inappropriate behavior. They can be reassigned to another activity or task that is more beneficial or appropriate

Human behavior is generated, sustained and adjusted following very intricate and executive functions by the brain. Listen in to the chat by this upcoming pediatric neurologist to find out how and learn about how best to respond to your child's behavioral challenges.  Photo by meo from Pexels

Positive reinforcement rewards good behavior as a means of increasing its occurrence. We need to ‘catch them being good. Often times as parents, guardians, grand parents, teachers and all who take care of children, both neurodiverse and neurotypical wait till they misbehave then punish them for it. Do we offer guidance on what behavior is expected prior to them making a mistake?  To access th...

Human brains are wired to increase investment/attention to what elicits a response from others. This is particularly true for children. They are sponges for attention whether positive or negative. Notice what most children do when they do something new whether good or bad. They watch for parental/guardian response. Planned ignoring is one of the easiest non violent methods of modifying child behav...

Phewx! After a long break, we are back! Better, stronger and grown up! This season we shall talk about non violent approaches to modifying child behavior. Join us as we delve into this very important approach to child rearing. For a look into a behavior chart for teens click here and make your order https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/73dc20c0-1bdd-4f61-9d40-97e669c52c8b/Screenshot%20(5).png/:/cr=t:0...

Sexual behavior is determined by our DNA which is complete by the time we are conceived. Therefore sexual behavior begins in childhood. Some behavior is considered normal while other are concerning. Listen to find out more information. To purchase a teen incentive chart that helps keeps adolescents busy and with less time to think about sexual intercourse visit https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/73d...

Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in an activity even though it is causing psychological and physical harm. This could be drugs, betting, pornography or people. Listen to understand what causes this and how to stop this. Photo by lalesh aldarwish from Pexels Previous episode on drugs of abuse: https://anchor.fm/lilian43/episodes/Are-you-high-emvkjo To get a copy of th...

A gang is an organised  group of criminals. Could your child be in one?  To get the teen incentive chart on the episode picture, sms +254737195080 or email lilkebz@gmail.com

Truancy is the deliberate and persistent absence from school in a child of compulsory school going age without an excuse. Listen to learn how this affects the children, society and the country. Photo by Kebs Visuals from Pexels For this week's promotional, paste this link to your browser <a target="_blank"  href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/170411344X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=17...

Impulsive behavior is acting on stimuli without adequate planning. Stimuli are our sensory inputs, biological needs or memories. Typical human behavior follows a sequence of processing from stimulus to action taken. Impulsivity means this processing is bypassed. Children with impulsive behavior may be aggressive, destructive or unhealthy. Find out what causes this and how we can help them.  P...

Obsessions are intrusive repetitive thoughts that interfere with the normal thinking and mood of a child. The thought cause distress and normal life interruption and the child tries to correct this by having ritualistic repetitive behavior patterns that soon take over their lives. Listen for ways of helping these children. Today's promo is a timer that you can use during therapy when exposing thes...

Fear is a normal human response and helps to shield us from many dangers such as falls, death, assault etc. Anxiety is extreme fear or unreasonable avoidance of a particular situation, animal, person, environment or activity  It is normal for children to fear dark, animals, sounds, places, people etc. relative to age and culture However when this fear interferes with learning, family relation...

Opposition is resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument; persistently saying no. Defiance is defined as open rebellion or disobedience despite adequate information that obedience would be helpful or the better option. Listen for tips on how to handle defiant children. For a kindness chart please click here https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/73dc20c0-1bdd-4f61-9d40-97e669c52c8b/IMG_8138....

Learning is the acquisition of knowledge through experience, study or teaching. There are key skills required for learning and a challenge in any of these skills may result  in several learning difficulties. Join us as we delve into how to help all children thrive through their learning experience. To purchase a child friendly calculator, click here: <iframe style="width:120px;height:240px...

Stealing is taking possession of things that dont belong to oneself. Have you or your children ever stolen anything? Ever? Find out why children do this and what we can do to help them. Picture source: Coffee from Pixabay Today's promotional is a book on respecting people's properties. Click here to get it Amazon. <a target="_blank"  href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1986158691/ref=a...

Lying is a common childhood behaviour and if not checked it can lead  to false arrests, hospital stay, wrong punishment to wrong person and basically collapse of societies and nations. Listen on how to respond and correct lying. Here is a link if you would like a book about how to teach your kids to tell the truth. <a target="_blank"  href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080100926X...

Toilet training is an important step in child development and later independence. It is also a season that can cause immense anxiety to both parents and children. Listen for a few tips on how to navigate this season for both neurotypical and neurodiverse children. To purchase a cool car potty from Amazon, click here: <a target="_blank"  href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2YH4Z0/re...