The Red Flags of Challenging Childhood Behaviors
Seeing Behaviors as Red Flags
When children demonstrate behavioral problems, it’s a signal to the grownups in charge that they need support in some way. Children communicate to adults how they are doing primarily through their behavior. This is due to normal brain development. Because the areas of the brain that are responsible for expression through language (verbally communicating, “I’m not ok.”) are still developing, children show us how they are feeling through their behavior.