Daytime wetting means a healthy child who wets their underwear one or more times a day at an age when they are expected to be dry. Allowing a child to use a nappy (daiper) may extend the time required for …
The term ‘bedwetting’ is used when a child who aged four or more years has a continence problem and wets the bed at night. A standard recommendation for helping such children is to avoid talking about bedwetting and focus instead …
Paying attention is a composite skill Being able to pay attention is not a single skill but a collection of skills. It is much like the skill of driving a car, another complex skill that consists of numerous individual skills. …
Children who repeatedly fail to complete the homework they have been set at school, will sooner or later start to lag behind their peers. Teachers who notice that a pupil is neglecting his homework usually report this to the parents …
Pupils or students arriving late for school or lectures is a typical problem in education. Common methods for attempting to solve this problem including noting incidents of lateness, informing parents or threatening the culprits with punishment. If these conventional solutions …
This behaviour describes children who have developed the habit of clowning around in class, disturbing their teacher and the other pupils by saying amusing things or acting in silly ways to provoke laughter and amusement. A common view of clowning …
Children can behave disruptively in class in many different ways. Below is an excerpt from a pupil’s post on the Internet listing varieties of disruptive behaviours in class. laughing giggling talking to others yelling telling the teacher off horseplay sending …
If a child feels they are being bullied at school, the problem can be solved using a solution-focused approach that has much in common with the Kids’Skills steps. This method, known as the Support Group Approach, has been used successfully …
Some children find it difficult to learn to sleep in their own room, or bed. Parents may solve the problem in various ways. They may, for example, allow the child to sleep with them in their bed, or they may …