Management of aggressive behaviour
• Remain calm and do not raise your voice
• Ask the child to stop and redirect them to another activity
• If they do stop, praise them
• If they do not stop, go to ‘quiet time’ (in same room)
• If they keep coming out of ‘quiet time’ or are aggressive again, go
to time out (in another room)
– keep conversation minimal at this time as the child might be too
agitated to understand explanations. short explanations should
be given (eg. ‘you hit your sister. that is not acceptable behaviour.
you are going to time out’)
– the child stays in time out until they are quiet and calm (this may
be less than 1 minute per year of age).