Identifying your child’s behavior triggers | Parenting Behavior

Do your child’s outbursts seem to come out of nowhere? In this 7-minute episode of “What Now? A Parent’s Guide,” psychologist Dr. Andrew Kahn explains how to find your child’s behavior triggers so you can try to prevent tantrums and meltdowns.

Learn which details to track to help you spot patterns, like time of day, what your child was doing just before the outburst, and who else was there.

To help you build this skill, read “What a child’s anger might be telling you.”
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00:00 Intro
01:06 Why parents need to be detectives
02:50 How to identify your child’s triggers
05:21 What you can practice ahead of time

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