Posititive Behaviour Procedures
8.1 Positive Behaviour Procedure
I promote positive behaviour by:
- Providing positive attention by playing, listening and talking to your child to foster your child’s self-esteem.
- Providing activities that help children to develop safe ways of dealing with anger and other strong feelings.
- Setting, explaining and maintaining clear, reasonable and consistent limits so that children can feel safe and secure in their play and other activities.
- Reducing incidents of frustration and conflict by keeping routines familiar, predictable, but flexible enough so that your child can pursue their interests. I will provide routines.
- Affirming positive behaviour but not using praise since praise is detrimental to children's development in many ways.
- Ignoring inappropriate behaviour if it is not harming them, others or property.
- Distracting your child, so as to encourage positive behaviour.
- Sharing strategies with parents and/or carers to ensure a consistent approach which benefits the child. I share my positive behaviour policy with parent/guardian and discuss any behavioural issues with parent/guardian.
- Providing a happy, secure environment, where children are encouraged to develop social skills to help them be accepted and welcome in society as they grow up.
- Confidentiality will be maintained when addressing all behavioural issues.