Behaviour management

Positive parenting: how to set boundaries and build positive relationships (Guide for parents)

This guide shares practical advice and tips for positive parenting techniques that work well for children – from babies to teenagers. These techniques encourage improved behaviour and help parents find out what works for them and their child. The guide is also a valuable resource for services and professionals offering parenting advice to new parents and those caring for young children or teenagers.

This guide was produced by the NSPCC in 2020.

Your Young Child’s Behaviour – How You Can Help

This guide shares practical advice and tips for positive parenting techniques that work well for children – from babies to teenagers. These techniques encourage improved behaviour and help parents find out what works for them and their child. The guide is also a valuable resource for services and professionals offering parenting advice to new parents and those caring for young children or teenagers.

This guide was produced by Barnardos (Ireland) in 2014.

Behaviour chart

This worksheet can help improve a child’s commitment with several goals by keeping track of when they are completed. Parents can use stickers to indicate when their children have successfully completed a chore.

This worksheet was produced by the Therapist Aid in 2012.

Reward coupons

This reward coupon printout provides some ideas for rewards printed in an attractive coupon format. The last two coupons can be used to write in any other reward the parent and child come up with.

This printout was produced by the Therapist Aid in 2012.

Goal sheet

This is a very simple goal sheet which encourages parents to choose one goal they want their child to achieve each week.

This printout was produced by the Therapist Aid in 2012.

9 behavioural management strategies for parents and foster carers

One of the biggest challenges foster carers may experience is understanding and responding to a child’s behaviour. Growing up in environments where there has been harm and/or abuse children in care may exhibit behaviours we must take time to understand. It is incredibly important that we recognise how difficult it is to leave their family and be cared for a new family they have no pre-existing relationships with, quite simply it is scary.

In this guide, there are 9 behavioural management strategies you can use to provide consistent, fair and effective parenting at home to create an environment where children feel safe and secure.

This guide was produced by the National Fostering Group.

Interactive social and emotional development resources

Interactive resources in social and emotional development encourage children to develop positive peer and adult interactions and to manage self-expression and inner feelings. This interactive activity can be used to encourage and teach appropriate social behaviours. Social problem solving, self-awareness, and empathy are also explored.

These resources were produced by the PBS & GBH Educational Foundation.

Anger management for kids

These resources provide practitioners with tools that enable them to offer children and young people reliable vocabulary for their feelings allowing children and young people the ability to more readily use words to express their emotions, rather than acting out their feelings through unwanted behaviours.