Why are some children More Challenging than Others?

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Why are some children More Challenging than Others?

Introduction

The paper is aimed at identifying key risk factors that could be influence behavior especially child behavior. It identifies the influencing pattern of each factor on behavior. Finally, it analyzes strategies that are or could be applied by teachers to assist the changing behaviors.

Discussion

In many families, in kindergartens and schools, there are children with a reputation for difficult behavior problems or they even carry disturbing attributes. In this case, more and more children are treated because of their behavior; child psychologists present prescriptions of drugs. A study in this regards comments that more than 20 percent of all children are considered to be maladjusted. These children are simply difficult or they develop attributes like these due to surroundings. The question here is that what are the causes of challenging behavior and what can one do about it to correct this temperament (Goldsmith, 2008).

Risk Factors

Broad categories of risk factors could be illustrated with factors associated to environment, family and within child. Such risk factors would be influential on a child's behavior and the process of his or her emotional and social development (Kaiser & Rasminsky, 2009).

Environmental risk factors could be linked with upbringing of a child in a low quality setting of child care, absence of policies and resources that could support families and their children and the life complications in an unsafe living area of community. Risk factors associated with family have been observed as a mental disorder in any member of the family, family violence, use of substance abuse by parents and poverty etc. Factors that have been observed within children are delay in their process of development, fussy temperament and serious issues related to their health (Early Child Mental Health Consultation, ...