THE SIX (6) TYPES OF CHALLENGING KIDS PART FIVE – THE DARE DEVIL

"Behaviour is our best effort at any given time and situation with the skills we have to obtain what we want"

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THE SIX (6) TYPES OF CHALLENGING KIDS

PART FIVE – THE DARE DEVIL

There are six easily identifiable personas that children with challenging behaviour fit into according to Clinical Psychologist Andrew Fuller.

They are:          Manipulators

                        Negotiators

                        Debaters

                        Competitors

                        Dare Devils

                        Passive Resisters

 Owner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List">The Dare Devil (Steve Irwin, Evel Knievel, Harry Houdini): is the child always reporting to the lost counter t the local show. Parenting these kids is like being involved in an extreme sport.

These kids are high attention-seekers and they just love a challenge, especially with thrills and excitement. They often excel in careers such as emergency service workers, fire-fighters, police officers or stunt performers. Unfortunately they are not great forward planners.

 

They are often very sweet natured and have no intent on causing concern or worry and in fact as they have little to no fear they it is rare that the thought you may be alarmed never enters their head. It fact the love these kids have for intensity means they often do not think things though.

As we are not going to be able to wean these kids away from their thrills and spills we need to find more positive forms of risk taking such as motocross, paintball, camping etc.

Again in conflict situations it is beneficial to remove conflict away from the audience as these kids have a reputation t uphold and maintain. These kids are very optimistic and so often overestimate their own abilities. To combat this we need to assist them to think things through and develop effective sequencing by asking lots of questions when they are planning something.

                                                                                               

Although this can be like pulling teeth, it does help prepare them for the risks they are about to undertake. In addition some relaxation, visualisation and mental imagery coupled with concentration exercises will assist them to become more focused