When Your Child Hits (Stop Doing This)

About this episode

Lisa discusses her approach to managing children's aggressive behavior, addressing listener questions about hitting and tantrums.

#159 In this episode, Lisa discusses her approach when children are hitting others. She covers navigating aggressive behaviour and why she believes children often start this behaviour in the first place. Lastly, Lisa addresses eight listener questions, discussing how to respond when a 17-month-old has started hitting others, what to do when a 5-year-old is acting out at school, the best way to manage 4-year-old tantrums and hitting a sibling, and how to handle a toddler throwing things...

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Bunnage

Topics covered

• aggressive behavior
• parenting strategies
• child development
• listener questions
• tantrums
• hitting

Keywords

• hitting
• aggression
• parenting
• tantrums
• child behavior
• listener questions
• discipline

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