Below are some ideas, situations, and tips that may be helpful
Resources + Ideas
Tips to Parenting in Public
During stressful and/or unfamiliar situations, children tend to believe your attention is elsewhere — causes them to feel insecure, act out, etc.
- Tip: Stay present to your child – a little attention goes a long way
- The more you stay connected with your child, the less they will act out and cause you more stress
Adults do not realize a child cannot sit still and quiet due to the development of their brain (in any child that occurs)
- Tip: Children learn new things through “hands-on experience,” – give your child something to touch and learn in an important situation or stressful setting
- Most of the time their focus will be on the object
Redirection is key to help a child’s impulse. If your child wants to run/energized, reward or redirect that impulse to run
- Tip: Say let’s run for 1 minute then we will walk. Exaggerate your walk to make your child laugh
Your child cries or starts a fit in the middle of a public place
- Tip: Take a breath, calm yourself – realize this isn’t an emergency, and your child is acting like a child because they are a child
- Redirect their attention onto something new, excited, interesting to their mind
