Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour
A Guide for Practitioners Working with Parents and Foster Parents
Chapter One
Disruption in the home
Children in control - children out of control
The subtitle of this chapter was chosen to illustrate the plight of many hapless
parents who feel that their children appear to control large areas of family life while
being, in many ways, out of control. The title may seem hyperbolic when applied to
defiant pre-school children at one end of the age scale, but not quite so exaggerated
when we think of the highly visible anti-social and aggressive behaviour of some
teenagers. In many years of practice the authors have met parents who feel bruised
(literally and figuratively) and abused (physically and emotionally) by young
offspring, as well as older adolescents. Others, we suspect, remain silent - too
embarrassed to admit the intimidati ... read full excerpt from Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour: A Guide for Practitioners Working with Parents and Foster Parents ebook
