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Are you searching for information and advice to help you as a parent to understand and help with a particular young child behaviour problem or issue? One year old screaming? Two year old tantrums? Aggressive three year old boy? Angry four year old girl ?

We provide excellent articles re 1, 2, 3, & 4 Year Old Child Behaviour --- the major problems & issues, including discipline strategies, typical or normal behaviour.

Also explore Child Development articles --- 1 - 4 Year Old 

1, 2, 3, 4 Year Old Child Behaviour

 Problems * Issues * Discipline 

 Aggression

 Aggression in children
 Biting, Pushing, Pulling Hair Helping Children with Aggression
 Time Out for aggressive Toddlers
 

 Anger

 The Angry Child
 

 Arguing

 Arguing and Back-Talk
 Creating a "Back-talk Free" Home
 

 Bad Language

 When a Child uses Bad Language
 When a Child uses Dirty Language
 

 Biting

 Why Kids Bite Other Kids ... and How To Stop It!
 Biting Must Never be Permitted
 
 

 Bullying

 Bullying 1
 Bullying 2
 What to do if your child is being Bullied
 What parents can do to combat Bullying
 Bully Proofing our Kids
 What if the Bully is YOUR child?
 

 Changes in behaviour

 Winds of Change
 Developmental Milestones - Ages 3 & 4 years
 Assessing the Development of Pre-schoolers
 Toddler Milestones
 

 Communication

 Why Won't My Child Talk To Me?
 Family Meetings build Stronger Ties
 Saying "No" to everything
 

 Discipline Strategies

 Discipline
 How to Discipline a child according to Age
 Top 10 Tips for Disciplining your Toddler
 Guiding your child with positive discipline
 Discipline without physical punishment
 Effective Time Out
 Time out and 1-2-3 Magic
 Using Time Out for Negative behaviors
 Guidelines for using Time Out with children
 The 7 Biggest Discipline Mistakes
 Positive Discipline & Child Guidance
 How to use Incentive Charts with Kids
 

 Divorce

 The Effects of Divorce on Children
 

 Eating Habits

  Bad Eating Habits start near age 2
  Banning Foods makes them more Desirable
 Dessert - Not Unless you Finish your Dinner
 Minimising Mealtime Mayhem
 How to Teach your child Polite Table Manners
 

 Fears

 Taming the Monster: Helping children deal with their Fears
 

 Goals of Parenting

 Parenting Roles --- overview of parental roles and goals
 

 Good Behavior Strategies 

 Encouraging good Toddler behaviour
 Why Won't My Child Talk To Me
 10 Tips for Nurturing your Child
 

 Hyperactivity

 Living with a Hyperactive Child
 Hyperactivity and ADHD
 How to Discipline a Hyperactive child
 

 Listening

 When the Kids Won't Listen
 The child who Interrupts
 Toddler Listening & Talking
 

 Lying

 When Children Lie
 Help! My child Lies
 

 Manners

 Manners, Please!
 

 Media (TV, Computers, Video Games, etc)

 Managing media use in the home
 How to promote good television habits
 

 Misbehaviour

 Causes of Misbehavior
 Talking to young children when they Misbehave
 When your child misbehaves
 Toddler Tantrums
 What's so terrible about being two?
 Dealing with Tantrums
 Getting through the Terrible Twos
 

 Nail Biting

 Nail Biting
 

 Nose Picking

 Stop Picking your Nose
 

 Patience

 How to Teach a child Patience
 

 Paying Attention

 Diagnostic Guidelines for ADHD
 Free Advice about ADHD
 

 Pets

 How to Teach Children to be Kind to Animals
 

 Reward Systems

 Bribery vs. Reinforcement
 The Family Chip Reward System
 

 Safety

 Teaching Your child to be Safe
 Child Safety - Tips, Advice
 Internet Safety
 

 Self Esteem

 Self Esteem Spirals
 

 Separation Anxiety

 Toddler Separation Anxiety
 

 Separation (Parental)

 When parents separate: How you can help children cope
 

 Shopping

 10 Tips for Shopping with Children
 

 Shyness

 The Shy Child
 

 Sibling Rivalry

 Sibling Rivalry 1
 Sibling Rivalry 2
 Sibling Rivalry and how to Stop it
 

 Single Parenting

 Single Parents --- section of 15 articles for parents going solo 
 

 Sleep

 Children's Sleep Habits
 Getting Kids to Bed
 Nightmares and Nightterrors
 Nightmare, Night Terrors & Sleep Walking
 Bedwetting
 Too Scared to go to Sleep?
 Whose Bedtime is it Anyway?
 Bedtime Rituals can get children to sleep on time
 

 Smacking / Spanking

 To Spank or Not to Spank?
 To Smack or not to Smack
 

 Stealing

 When Young Children Steal

 What to do when a Child Steals

 

 Step Parenting

 Your Kid gets up my Nose
 Step Parents
 

 Stress

 Helping your child deal with Stress
 

 Teasing

 Helping children deal with Teasing
 Teasing and the Short Child
 

 Thumb sucking

 Thumbsucking
 

 Toilet Training

 Toilet Training: Don't Rush Kids
 Potty Training Advice, Tips & Potties 
 Potty Training should be spelled RELAX
 

 Travel

 Travelling with your Preschooler
 

 Weight problems

 3 Mistakes Parents of Overweight Kids make
 Weight can Damage Self-Esteem
 Overweight: a Weight Reduction Program
 

 Whining

 Eliminate Whining
 How to help stop your child from whining