Behaviour and Developmental Support
Whether it’s sleeping through the night, the first tooth or the first step, parents worry about their child’s development and whether they’re doing the right thing. Bringing up children to become independent, secure and considerate adults isn’t always easy. Parents often know best what is right for their child, but they lack confidence in their own ability. At Carlyle Key, we will listen carefully to parents’ anxieties and provide guidance and reassurance. Problems with sleeping and eating, tantrums, rudeness, sibling rivalry, shyness, speech delay-all these phases cause parents sleepless nights. The Directors of Carlyle Key are here to help put your mind at rest.
Behaviour
One of the most frequent problems that brings parents to Carlyle Key is their child’s behaviour. Tantrums, shouting, rudeness and aggression are all signs that a child is out of control, and an out of control child is a scared and unhappy one. Parents in this situation are often scared and unhappy, too, and desperately in need of advice on how to change for the better. Fortunately, young children learn quickly, and with the right intervention and behaviour support techniques, it’s possible to put the past behind you and develop more constructive relationships with your children. We can’t promise little angels all the time, but we can show you how to use praise, reward, sanctions and communication to get the results you want-it works outside the family, too!
Sleeping
Advice on getting babies and young children to sleep well is confusing and contradictory. Parents become exhausted and defeated and end up sleeping under a ballerina duvet in a child’s room while the child sprawls in the centre of the double bed. Carlyle Key can encourage children to develop sensible sleep routines and help parents get their energy and sanity back.
Eating
Eating should be enjoyable but in many families, meals and nutrition are battlegrounds. One of the most important contributions you can make to your child’s long-term health is to set up healthy eating patterns in their early life. Carlyle Key can provide eating plans and strategies to make mealtimes and the whole business of eating properly an enjoyable journey of discovery for even the most time-pressed parent and fussy child.
Biting and fighting
Parents find it very upsetting when their child is aggressive towards another child, whether at home towards a brother or sister, or fighting at nursery or school. Young children are highly physical and emotional creatures, so episodes such as these are predictable. With Carlyle Key’s advice, parents can understand the reasons for aggression and manage to avoid the triggers that cause them.
Development
We want our children to have the opportunity to flourish, be happy and reach their potential. But what if the child next door of the same age chatters happily while your child only knows a couple of words? Or all the children in your child’s class are on blue reading books and your child still has books without words? The vast majority of parents’ anxieties can be overcome by reassurance and guidance from Carlyle Key on how to encourage a child’s confidence and willingness to try new experiences. We are also knowledgeable about identifying more serious concerns over a child’s development that might require additional specialist advice, and can help parents through the process of assessment and support.
Communication
An understanding of how babies communicate will enable you to tune in to their needs and reduce crying and frustration (both the babies’ and yours!). Do your children ignore you or answer back? Do you listen to your child or always try to do two things at once? Shout to make yourself heard over the TV or computer game? Yell instructions at your children that they simply ignore? We all live in a frenetic, noisy world where there never seems to be enough time to do anything properly, but if you use Carlyle Key’s communication techniques within your family some of that chaos disappears and peace and harmony takes its place-until the next crisis!