Children are naturally curious. If you put a small child into a room full of china ornaments, for example, they won’t be able to resist touching them.

Ways of preventing unacceptable or inappropriate behaviour include:

• child-proofing play spaces and removing breakable things
• providing several kinds of toys to avoid conflicts
• varying the tempo of routines to suit each child’s temperament,
• using calming rituals such as stories, songs or rocking,
• re-focusing your child’s attention onto interesting , safe and acceptable activities

We need to guide our children’s behaviour so they learn what behaviour is appropriate in the different situations they find themselves in—and what behaviour is not appropriate.

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