Document Type

Marquette Only

Language

eng

Format of Original

7 p.

Publication Date

9-1991

Publisher

National Association for the Education of Young Children

Source Publication

Young Children

Source ISSN

0044-0728

Abstract

All children go through difficult times that create challenges for their parents. Parents encounter temper tantrums, whining, noncompliance, sleeping and eating difficulties, aggression, and other "normal" problems in their one- to five-year-old children and often ask preschool teachers for advice. For a number of years there have been books offering guidance to parents and teachers on handling these behaviors, many of them published by NAEYC. Struggling with the difficult feelings and episodes that all young children go through can produce parental stress, a topic that has been recognized in the professional literature for many years. A recent test on the subject is Abidin's Parenting Stress Index (1986). As we all know, feeling excessively stressed can lead to inappropriate parentchild interactions.

Comments

Published Version. Young Children, Vol. 46, No. 6 (September 1991): 54-60. Publisher's link. © 1991 National Association for the Education of Young Children. Used With Permission.

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