Understanding & Strategies for Behavior Management
Under Age 11

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This supplemental curriculum is only available as part of the Kinship Interactive Training & Support Curriculum Package.

This curriculum will offer an overview of trauma-informed parenting strategies, for the toddler and pre-school-aged children in their care, including how trauma, prenatal substance exposure, or neurodiversity impacts a child’s brain. Parents and caregivers will learn about why co-regulation is a necessary tool for learning the foundational skills for eventual self-regulation and how to implement co-regulation strategies in parenting. They will also learn specific strategies to apply to the most common challenging behaviors of this age and stage of childhood, including tantrums or meltdowns, sleep issues, and handling transitions from one activity to another. With this information, parents will then learn practical strategies to build their pre-school-aged child’s skills to help them succeed and move through the stages of development they previously missed.

Relative caregivers will leave this meeting with a better understanding of the following topics.

  • What co-regulation is and why it is necessary before self-regulation can develop.
  • How trauma impacts a child’s ability to learn self-regulation.
  • The specific strategies that can help teach co-regulation then self-regulation.
  • Common early childhood behavioral challenges and strategies for each.

*This curriculum includes a video, facilitator guide, and handouts.