I've been doing school work. Right now I got to figure out how adults react to a 2 year old displaying defiant behavior how they deal with such challanging behavior.
I already have ideas on how I'm going to go about answering the question. But I want to be realistic in how I answer. So I figured I'd ask. How have you seen parents/childcare folk react to defiant behavior in young children? Im only asking so i get a few more ideas on how im going to answer a question on the assignment and to make sure my answer is realistic.
Im not asking how adults should act in these types of situations. Just how you've seen them act.
Edit: Any parents or childcare folk out there feel free to say how you've dealt with defiant behavior in young children.
How people act runs the full gamut.
For some, it's a perfect chance to judge others. This judgement will include the child (bad child) and the parents (bad parents).
Others will feel empathy, most often because they've been in a somewhat analogous situation.
And a few will find the whole thing either annoyingly loud, and leave, or amusing.
How to deal with defiant behaviour is quite the tricky question, and it varies a lot between one's own children, and other people's children (eg. as a teacher, or coach).
For one's own kids, you need to be building consistent approaches to rules and discipline from birth. You should have an understanding of your kid's triggers, and some feel for whether their defiance is normally 'reasonable' or not.
For other people's kids it is much more about setting acceptable boundaries of behaviour for the space you're in control of, and consistently applying whatever the agreed discipline is at the time of poor behaviour.
Generically, I'd usually be;
1) Trying to assess the root cause of the defiant behaviour.
2) Trying to establish a consistent rule that kids can push back, disagree, and communicate without the need for digging in their heels and being defiant.
3) Where they are defiant, establishing a clear rule that there are consequences in this environment.
4) Ensuring that after whatever consequence, they are given a chance to communicate their issue, since they would have lost this (point 2) due to their defiance.