Dealing with the challenging behaviour of young children.

[L-M-B]

I hope this is the correct forum for me to be in. I'm an 83 year old male with the good luck to have three young grandchildren which my wife and I regularly look after one at a time for a day. I'm looking for support/advice in how one should cope with the challenging behaviour of a little boy.

A two year old boy striking his eighteen month sister so hard that she cries.

The same child snatching toys away from his little sister although we have a room full of them.

[Sarah_Mencap]

Hello L-M-B

Welcome to Mencap's online community. The community is here for anyone who is interested in learning disabilities and anything related to them.

I am sorry that you are finding your young grandson's behaviour hard to cope this. It must be very hard work. Have you spoken to his parents about this? Do you know if this is something he does at home too? If so, it might help to make sure you are using the same techniques to deal with it.

Does your grandson have a learning disability or any other diagnosis?

We do have a challenging behaviour event on this week where our expert, Yvonne, is around to answer any questions that you have: healthunlocked.com/mencap/p...

Please have a look round on there as there is likely to be a lot of advice that might be useful regardless of whether your grandson has a learning disability or not.

Best wishes

Sarah

[L-M-B in reply to Sarah_Mencap]

I don't think that he has a learning difficulty. We have spoken to his parents who appear to just accept it. We have the child on a Monday and my wife brings in a load of toys for him so the living room was quite full of them. I picked up a small keyboard and placed it on my knees and he started to play with a set of small cars until he noticed the keyboard on my knees upon which he attempted to snatch it from me which I refused to happen so he threw a tantrum and forgot it a few moments later. During the day he was absolutely hyper is I think the description and was just the same when we got him to his home.

By the way, is there anyway that I can get replied automatically?