3 Reasons Your Child Misbehaves At School
6/1/202633 min
In this episode, Jess explains the three most common reasons why kids struggle with behaviour at school. She shares common reasons kids act out at school, even when things are going well at home, and gives practical solutions to help parents and educators support children!
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Robot Unicorn, hosted by my parents, Jess and Scott. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Jess VanderWier· Host0:14
[upbeat music] Hey, friends. Welcome back to another week here at Robot Unicorn. Today's topic is one that I'm, like, secretly really excited about because as a therapist who supports so many kids who are struggling at school, but actually okay at home, this is a topic that I feel like just comes up over and over again and is not really talked about. I think we talk a lot about kids with challenging behavior, and we kind of think their challenging behavior happens everywhere they go, but that's not always the case. Sometimes kids will struggle just at home or just at school, and these cases can be super tricky because it's hard for either the teacher or the parent to understand why they're only struggling in one spot. So today's episode is specifically [laughs] going to focus on when a child misbehaves or struggles, and I'm putting quotations around misbehaves because we know behavior is actually communication, so these kids are trying to tell us something, but when this only happens at school. So a lot of parents, for example, at school you have your child's teacher sending you messages and saying,