Restless Child / Children

What do you do when your child / children run around the room, knocking into people and things???

First, you try to understand why your child / children is behaving this way as you try to settle them.

Children may act wild and restless because they are hungry or scared or even excited by what they had seen in the room. Adults that respond with anger and loud voices may actually excite the child / children further. Thus instead of trying to stop them and speed things up, we are actually aggitating them further.

1) What you can do is to actually greet the child / children with a firm but kind voice. Only then can you direct them to do what you want them to do e.g. bathe, eat or other things.

2) Another thing that you could do is to simply take the galloping child by the hand or put an arm around the child and say , "No more running for now. I want you to play over here for a little while." Lead the child where you would like him / her to be, sit down together and show him / her what you wanted he / she to do.

Often, using this method, you will find that these child / children actually just wanted to be noticed or cuddled.

Try it and you find that your "naughty" child or "restless" children are just a child who wanted some space to be noticed. If you are calm, fair, loving and strong, children will learn to trust you and cooperate with you.